On Saturday 20 January 2007 01:46, Gordon McLellan wrote:
> Can anyone share their experience with installing RHEL / Centos
> (latest production release) on the Dell 2950 (or 2900) with the
> quad-core e5310 processor? Does anyone know what chipset Dell is
> using on this box?
The 2950 works perfectly with Centos-4.4 (I've only ever used x86_64 though).
The addon intel NIC might need the 4.4 kernel but the basic 2950 even works
with 4.3.
As for chipset Dell uses the workstation flavour (5000X), here's some
lspci -tv output:
-[0000:00]-+-00.0 Intel Corporation 5000X Chipset Memory Controller Hub
...
+-1c.0-[0000:04-05]----00.0-[0000:05]----00.0 Broadcom Corporation
NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet
...
+-1e.0-[0000:10]----0d.0 ATI Technologies Inc ES1000
...
\-1f.1 Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB IDE Controller
/Peter
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