On 03/10/15 15:40, Peter wrote: > 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. > > You don't need to rebuild the whole kernel just for one driver - just build the driver out of tree.