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?
Kind regards, Janne Nyman E: jnyman@jbtec.org
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
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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Hi all,
All resolved now. Thanks to Paul for pointing out the basics :)
This had nothing to do with the e1000e as I thought earlier. It has to do with the AHCI mode set for the SATA interface.
These where the steps I took to resolve it:
1. Start Laptop 2. When first boot screen appears, press F1 to get into the BIOS setup 3. Go to Config > Serial ATA and change AHCI to Compatibility 4. Press F10 to save and reboot
Now it boots and installs. Since CentOS has an older kernel than RHEL 6.1 I am not able to get screen resolution etc to work so I will run RHEL on this one as Keyboard keys, Web cam, Sound, Ericsson WLAN, all just works :)
Thanks a lot for your help peeps.
Cheers, Janne "Janski" Nyman E: jnyman@jbtec.org
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011, Janne TH. Nyman wrote:
Hi all,
All resolved now. Thanks to Paul for pointing out the basics :)
This had nothing to do with the e1000e as I thought earlier. It has to do with the AHCI mode set for the SATA interface.
These where the steps I took to resolve it:
- Start Laptop
- When first boot screen appears, press F1 to get into the BIOS setup
- Go to Config > Serial ATA and change AHCI to Compatibility
- Press F10 to save and reboot
Now it boots and installs. Since CentOS has an older kernel than RHEL 6.1 I am not able to get screen resolution etc to work so I will run RHEL on this one as Keyboard keys, Web cam, Sound, Ericsson WLAN, all just works :)
Making sure it was in AHCI mode was the first suggestion you got on the list... ;)
jh
Am 10.09.2011 13:40, schrieb John Hodrien:
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011, Janne TH. Nyman wrote:
These where the steps I took to resolve it:
- Start Laptop
- When first boot screen appears, press F1 to get into the BIOS setup
- Go to Config > Serial ATA and change AHCI to Compatibility
- Press F10 to save and reboot
Making sure it was in AHCI mode was the first suggestion you got on the list... ;)
And she changed it from AHCI to compatibility mode (had to change it to that mode to make the drive being recognized?), which is not the best setting regarding speed.
jh
Alexander
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
Am 10.09.2011 13:40, schrieb John Hodrien:
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011, Janne TH. Nyman wrote:
These where the steps I took to resolve it:
- Start Laptop
- When first boot screen appears, press F1 to get into the BIOS setup
- Go to Config > Serial ATA and change AHCI to Compatibility
- Press F10 to save and reboot
Making sure it was in AHCI mode was the first suggestion you got on the list... ;)
And she changed it from AHCI to compatibility mode (had to change it to that mode to make the drive being recognized?), which is not the best setting regarding speed.
Quite right, sorry, I'd read it backwards. So presumably either a bug in the AHCI support, or a limitation/bug of the kernel driver?
jh
Now it boots and installs. Since CentOS has an older kernel than RHEL 6.1 I am not able to get screen resolution etc to work so I will run RHEL on this one as Keyboard keys, Web cam, Sound, Ericsson WLAN, all just works :)
If you have access to RHEL binaries, that's fine. I hadn't, so I installed a kernel from Scientific Linux 6.1 repo to CentOS 6.0 to make display driver work on my Acer 7550. Anyway, some day CentOS 6.1 should be available and thereafter if updates itself to genuine CentOS again...
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