I think this is where I got a working version. To correct my earlier statement, I think CentOS may have forcedeth but not new enough support my particular NIC. I think I did read somewhere that 5.4 will support my chipset. Either way, to get back to the original topic, it's a modern board and it's working fine for what I wanted. ________________________________ From: Ned Slider <ned at unixmail.co.uk> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> Sent: Tuesday, 14 July, 2009 23:54:15 Subject: Re: [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 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090715/7e4815f2/attachment-0005.html>