[CentOS] Request advise regarding Driver for Intel Motherboard

[Sanjay Arora]

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Sanjay Arora<sanjay.k.arora at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello All
>
> I made the mistake of assuming all Intel motherboards would be Linux
> compatible out of the box and bought one without checking support
> information. And now on initial install the Network is not
> working....the Network port is not detected at all.
>
> I have bought an Intel board DG41RQI
> (http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/DG41RQ/index.htm)
> which does not support Linux Out of Box. I am using a Core 2 Duo E7200
> 64 bit processor.
>
> I am installing CentOS 5.x XEN, minimal install for a XEN dom0. The
> Intel Linux Support page links to this page here
> http://forgeftp.novell.com/driver-process/pub/update/realtek/sle10sp2/common/i586/
> and lists a lot of drivers. Can someone please advise me which ones I
> need to install for my particular motherboard & processor type?
>
> Also, will these drivers clash with yum updatation from CentOS repos?
>
> Can someone please guide and if possible, comment on issues I will
> face. Intend to install minimal xen dom0 install and couple of low
> utilization servers and linux desktop. Also, would like to know if I
> can install Windows XP on same desktop under XEN.

Install is CentOS 5.0. Will be updating after network starts working.
Tried to install driver file
realtek-r8169-kmp-smp-8.008.00_2.6.16.60_0.21-0.i586.rpm from the list
using the rpm command....(yum would ask for dependencies and will need
to update), but it seems that this file needs a lot of kernel
modules....listing them below (but strangely rpm output does not seem
to show version numbers required, instead shows a hash required. Have
given an example at the end of list...

kernel(kernel)
kernel(drivers)
kernel(drivers_pci)
kernel(kernel_irq)
kernel(init)
kernel(net_sched)
kernel(security)
kernel(arch_i386_mm)
kernel(lib)
kernel(net_ethernet)
kernel(mm)
kernel(vmlinux)

Instead of stating kernel.x.x.x is required by xxxx.xx.i586.rpm
it states
kernel(vmlinux) = d0dc9b0f03309730 is needed by xx.xx.i586.rpm

Does this mean I will need a custom kernel and will not be able to use
the normal kernel from centos repo or even dag repo?

Sanjay.