At Fri, 9 Sep 2011 12:01:04 -0700 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 07:57:41PM +0100, Janne Nyman wrote:
Hi
unless you are doing this for a specific reason (ie eval/training) would advise that centos is not really a laptop distribution despite what redhat may try to suggest.
best desktop/laptop in my opinion is mageia
regards peter
I am trying to install CentOS 6 x86_64 on a Lenovo Thinkpad x220.
During the installation it asks me to insert a driver.
Has anyone done this successfully?
Hi Peter, thanks for your feedback.
I guess the reason I am doing it, is as I love the way CentOS works, I.e. the stability and performance. I am currently running it on a ThinkPad Edge 11 and all seems to work great.
Just looks like the e1000e NIC driver is not working with the kernel in 6.0. I have also tried this with RHEL 6.1 but that also gets me stuck at the booting of the x220.
I have tried to understand how the "load driver disk" works with CentOS and RHEL based systems, but I am failing to get it working.
I have got my hands on the e1000e driver and patched the initrd but still no go.
That's why I wanted to check if anyone else has got this working :)
Anyone else?
I haven't tried, but I think RHEL/CentOS on a laptop _should_ work fine, albeit, as you have experienced with some minor driver issues. :)
I've run WBL 3.0, CentOS 4 and (presently) CentOS 5 on my laptops. *I* don't really like Ubuntu and do really favor eye-candy heavy operating systems -- I never used MS-Windows (and loath dealing with it), and only tolerate MacOSX, mainly because I can always revert to using the Terminal application. RHEL works quite well on laptops (but mostly older ones, due to driver issues).
My preference is to pull from elrepo whenever possible. They actually have an e1000e driver:
http://jur-linux.org/download/elrepo/elrepo/el6/i386/RPMS/
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