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