Hello CentOS list,
I have been looking for a list of hardware that is supported by the Centos kernel and its modules. I couldn't find anything in the documentation at Centos nor at RH. Google didn't bring up anything either. Is there any list or will I need to browse the source code directories?
Just for clarification, I am not looking for "certified" hardware. I just want to see if a certain piece of hardware is supported.
best regards --- Michael Schumacher
On 05/03/11 2:16 AM, Michael Schumacher wrote:
Hello CentOS list,
I have been looking for a list of hardware that is supported by the Centos kernel and its modules. I couldn't find anything in the documentation at Centos nor at RH. Google didn't bring up anything either. Is there any list or will I need to browse the source code directories?
Just for clarification, I am not looking for "certified" hardware. I just want to see if a certain piece of hardware is supported.
the certified list at redhat.com is all you're likely to find.
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 2:30 AM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
On 05/03/11 2:16 AM, Michael Schumacher wrote:
Hello CentOS list,
I have been looking for a list of hardware that is supported by the Centos kernel and its modules. I couldn't find anything in the documentation at Centos nor at RH. Google didn't bring up anything either. Is there any list or will I need to browse the source code directories?
Just for clarification, I am not looking for "certified" hardware. I just want to see if a certain piece of hardware is supported.
the certified list at redhat.com is all you're likely to find.
Honestly your best bet is to identify the hardware that may have issues (newer ethernet, raid cards, hba's etc..). Figure out what chipset they use and google for it or look at RH release notes and kernel source to see if the driver is included. The driver source code usually has a pretty good list of supported chipsets and pci ids.
Brandon
I've also found it to be a good rule of thumb to not purchase motherboards that are using technology that have been out for less than a year or so. This is more applicable to "desktop/consumer grade" systems rather than "server grade" systems, since the latter don't tend to use a given technology until it has been out for a while anyway.
Conversely, if you're deploying on an arbitrary x86 system that is more than a year and a half old (excluding laptops, which are sometimes more problematic), then most things usually work out of the box. Again, this is just rule of thumb; nothing beats testing with the actual hardware if you can.
Devin
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