[CentOS-devel] C7 i686 kernel driver request

On 10/04/2015 03:37 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 8:19 AM, Peter <peter at pajamian.dhs.org> wrote:
>> Is it beyond reason to request certain older drivers be enabled in the
>> i686 kernel for CentOS 7 to help support the older hardware that you
>> might find in 32 bit machines?  I have an old gateway laptop that I'm
>> trying it out on and it needs the b43 driver enabled.
> 
> Is there any reason you can't grab the SRPM and, for the short term,
> build it yourself using "mock" and the new testable i386 repo? Or, for
> the short term, grab a USB/wifi device with an old, standard chipset
> and just use that until this gets worked out? I've done both in the
> past for older operating systems.

That's exactly what I'm doing now, but I'm putting the request in as
well as I'd like to not have to rebuild the kernel myself each time a
new one comes out, I'd much rather the driver is enabled in the stock
CentOS kernel if possible.


Peter