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. :)
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/
Ray