I think this is where I got a working version. To correct my earlier statement, I think CentOS may have forcedeth but not new enough support my particular NIC. I think I did read somewhere that 5.4 will support my chipset. Either way, to get back to the original topic, it's a modern board and it's working fine for what I wanted.
________________________________ From: Ned Slider ned@unixmail.co.uk To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Tuesday, 14 July, 2009 23:54:15 Subject: Re: [CentOS] modern motherboard for centos-5
Scott Silva wrote:
on 7-6-2009 2:50 AM Ian Murray spake the following:
I think these drivers were merged into a the kernel a bit later in the kernel than CentOS uses, although am a bit surprised upstream didn't backport.
Upstream usually only backports additions like this at point releases. Between point releases is usually security updates and other broken parts. So if the driver isn't in 5.3, it won't be added until 5.4 (or later).
ELRepo.org has drivers for forcedeth (amongst others) for el5:
http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-forcedeth
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