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. Before I set the machine up for proper, I tried a live Ubuntu disk which recognised the ethernet no problem, which lead me to figuring out what to do next for CentOS. Before I bought this board, I must admit I tried to find a suitable modern board myself and didn't come up with much in the way of resources... I thought it ought to be documented in a wiki or something. I ended up doing some guesswork and taking pot-luck... ________________________________ From: Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> Cc: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> Sent: Monday, 6 July, 2009 2:46:10 Subject: Re: [CentOS] modern motherboard for centos-5 > Pardon my ignorance, but what's "forcedeth"? On board Ethernet, part of the nVidia GForce chipset. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090706/1971eb25/attachment-0005.html>