On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 5:39 AM, Robert Heller heller@deepsoft.com wrote:
RedHat (and thus CentOS) backports esentual drivers and patches. Even though the kernel version is 2.6.18 (CentOS/RHEL 5), it contains bits and pieces from newer kernels. There is also the elrepo repository, which contains a pile of additional kernel modules (drivers mostly) that RedHat does not build. Check the elrepo elrepo repository -- your driver might be there.
You can find if ELRepo has the driver for you by going to FAQ #4 at:
Run the command (one line):
for BUSID in $(/sbin/lspci | awk '{ IGNORECASE=1 } /net/ { print $1 }'); do /sbin/lspci -s $BUSID -m; /sbin/lspci -s $BUSID -n; done
to get the the Vendor:Device ID parings. Then look through:
http://elrepo.org/tiki/DeviceIDs
To see if yours is there.
Hope this helps.
Akemi