The centos has support for this controller by default, I just had to do some tweaking in the actual controller in order to see the virtual console. I think it was my mistake all along to get this thing going, my box is flying using Vmware ESX 4.1, the nxt step is to configure centos, redhat, windows 2008 R2, debian, ubuntu and all the other goodies I am testing, opps almost forgot Solaris 11 express and Opensolaris. Testing time for me. Lisandro >>> Pasi Kärkkäinen 12/16/10 10:27 AM >>> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 03:44:19PM +0100, Timo Schoeler wrote: > thus Lisandro Grullon spake: > > Thank u timo, > > I will test this further when I get home. I have been having nightmares getting this card working from an OS iso, it appears that the card is very new and the drivers have not been integrated into the distributions or kernel. The alternative is to load the driver via console using any of the modules supply by LSI. Thank you again Timo for your guidance. Lisandro > > You're welcome. > > Ah, and welcome to the world of proprietary drivers. This is something > that the OpenBSD guys do right: They ignore them. ;) > I don't think LSI has proprietary drivers.. they provide the sources, and also pre-compiled driver disks for some linux distros. I assume RHEL/CentOS 5.5 does not (yet) contain a driver for that HBA, so they're making it easier to use that HBA. In the future (maybe in RHEL/CentOS 5.6) the driver is probably included in the distro, out-of-the-box. -- Pasi > Timo > > > Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry® > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Timo Schoeler > > Sender: centos-bounces at centos.org > > Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:33:22 > > To: CentOS mailing list > > Reply-To: CentOS mailing list > > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Antwort: MegaRAID SAS 9280-24i4e -- Centos support. > > > > thus Lisandro Grullon spake: > >> Thank u andrea for the response, but unfortunately a floppy its not > >> an option in my box. Can u guide me using a usb flash drive. Much > >> appreciated. Lisandro > > > > Should work similar to writing to a FDD. > > > > Maybe you have to experiment if plugging the stick into the machine > > *before* booting or when anaconda requests the driver disk works -- I > > have seen machines behave differently in this regard. > > > > Timo > > > >> Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry® > > > >> -----Original Message----- From: Andreas Reschke > >> Sender: centos-bounces at centos.org > >> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:06:13 To: CentOS mailing > >> list Reply-To: CentOS mailing list > >> Subject: [CentOS] Antwort: MegaRAID SAS > >> 9280-24i4e -- Centos support. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ 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/20101216/1a503b1d/attachment-0005.html>