[CentOS] Chipset support for 6750 Intel CPUs

Joshua Baker-LePain jlb17 at duke.edu
Sat Dec 8 04:31:16 UTC 2007


On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 at 11:04pm, Drew Weaver wrote

> We've noticed that the new chipsets required for the **50 series of 
> intel processors is not supported in CentOS 5.
>
> We've tried the DG31 board which (realtek nic unsupported) DG33 no 
> support for disk controller or NICs.  We also tried the dx38bt and there 
> was no support.
>
> Fedora 8 apparently works great with all of the boards we tried. My 
> question is, will there these boards not be supported via the installer 
> until CentOS 6?
>
> I realize that the driver support comes from upstream, but it would be 
> cool if they made a easy way to use a newer/updated kernel in the 
> installer.

Each point release gets support for new hardware (backported from later 
kernel.org kernels).  If 5.1 doesn't support those chipsets, then 5.2 
likely will.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin
UCSF



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