OK, I'll try first on a virtual machine.

1. I've install linux mint, takes 800 MB ram. 2. Ubuntu 10.04 350MB ram but was crashing. 3. Fedora 13, good but installed a damn package and didn't launch anymore. 4. debian Testing(good kernel) but no touchpad or ati drivers. 5. back to mint, to make some researches.

On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 6:21 AM, Eero Volotinen eero.volotinen@iki.fiwrote:

2010/5/30 Adryan Pop mareshal.2008@gmail.com:

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I have a Asus laptop, from the new generation, and my network driver is present in the kernel since version 2.6.32(Jmicron). Is there any CentOS with this kernel? I tried to compile myself, but I failed. Is a bit

harder

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than I thought.

Is there any testing version of CentOS or some backports?

No?

Try to compile driver again and paste error messages to centos mailing list.. usually you are only missing the development headers..

Anyway, is the centos really correct distribution for laptop ?

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On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 5:39 AM, Robert Heller heller@deepsoft.com wrote:

RedHat (and thus CentOS) backports esentual drivers and patches.  Even though the kernel version is 2.6.18 (CentOS/RHEL 5), it contains bits and pieces from newer kernels.  There is also the elrepo repository, which contains a pile of additional kernel modules (drivers mostly) that RedHat does not build.  Check the elrepo elrepo repository -- your driver might be there.

You can find if ELRepo has the driver for you by going to FAQ #4 at:

http://elrepo.org/tiki/FAQ

Run the command (one line):

for BUSID in $(/sbin/lspci | awk '{ IGNORECASE=1 } /net/ { print $1 }'); do /sbin/lspci -s $BUSID -m; /sbin/lspci -s $BUSID -n; done

to get the the Vendor:Device ID parings. Then look through:

http://elrepo.org/tiki/DeviceIDs

To see if yours is there.

Hope this helps.

Akemi

I tried to run it with rpm -ivh but I get this error

jme-kmod-1.0.6.1-1.el5.elrepo.src.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature NOKEY, key ID baadae52

1: jme-kmod warning: user ajb does not exist - using root

and so on until

#########################[100%]

and when I execute rpmbuild /usr/share/SPECS/jme.kmod.spec

it said kernel-devel-i368 is needed by jme.kmod

tried to reinstall kernel-devel-2.6.18 but is already installed

any solution?

On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Adryan Pop mareshal.2008@gmail.com wrote:

I tried to run it with rpm -ivh but I get this error

jme-kmod-1.0.6.1-1.el5.elrepo.src.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature NOKEY, key ID baadae52

1: jme-kmod warning: user ajb does not exist - using root

and so on until

#########################[100%]

and when I execute rpmbuild /usr/share/SPECS/jme.kmod.spec

it said kernel-devel-i368 is needed by jme.kmod

tried to reinstall kernel-devel-2.6.18 but is already installed

any solution?

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Have you checked to make sure your running kernel matches the kernel-devel and kernel-headers RPMs?

uname -r rpm -qa | grep kernel | sort

Ryan

You are right guys. I've installed the rpm only and jme.ko is in my system. thank you

btw, maybe you know maybe now.

How much time can I use RedHat 6 Beta for desktop?