nate wrote:
Beartooth wrote:
I have an ASUS EeePC 701 (with 2GB of RAM and an 8 GB card), on which I've installed CentOS on the hard-drive-plus-card. But it can't even use my eth0.
Some one on a local LUG, where I had mentioned that other OSs did fine with all the same exact hardware, suggested that CentOS, being designed for stability rather than the bleeding edge, likely lacks drivers; so I need to get some.
Anybody know what drivers (for wireless as well as ethernet cable) I need, and how/where to get ones to fit CentOS??
Why do you want CentOS on an EeePC ? It's not really intended for that purpose, if your having to ask where to get the drivers for it your probably not suited for running CentOS on the EeePC. Your better off with Fedora, or Ubuntu or something that has broader hardware support.
I don't have an EeePC but I like to run the same distro on everything. So since my remote server, lan server, desktop, and laptop run CentOS - that's what I would want on an EeePC as well.
With respect to the nic, my suspicion is that you may just need either the Fedora kernel or a patch from the Fedora kernel.
With CentOS 5.0 - the onboard gigabit nic on my Asus board worked OOB in Fedora 8 or 9 (forget which) but did not work in CentOS - though CentOS did see it and tried to use forcedepth (I think that was it), which worked in Fedora but not well CentOS. So I just use a PCI card (though I suspect onboard would work now, why change it?)
Can't do that with an EeePC - but you probably could rebuild the Fedora kernel for the EeePC.
I wonder if a working driver for the EeePC nic is something that could be patched into the CentOS plus kernel ??