[CentOS] modern motherboard for centos-5

Scott Silva wrote:
> on 7-6-2009 2:50 AM Ian Murray spake the following:
>> I think these drivers were merged into a the kernel a bit later in the
>> kernel than CentOS uses, although am a bit surprised upstream didn't
>> backport.
> Upstream usually only backports additions like this at point releases. Between
> point releases is usually security updates and other broken parts. So if the
> driver isn't in 5.3, it won't be added until 5.4 (or later).
> 

ELRepo.org has drivers for forcedeth (amongst others) for el5:

http://elrepo.org

http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-forcedeth