On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > On 4/16/11 12:50 PM, Nicolas Ross wrote: >> Is it possible that the kernel in the centosplus repo is not up to date ? >> >> The centosplus kernel I have is kernel-PAE-2.6.18-238.5.1.el5 and the >> regular one is 2.6.18-238.9.1.el5... >> >> I need the plus because of the firewire drivers. > > I thought that firewire was finally backed into the stock RHEL kernel a few revs > ago at least as a 'technology preview'. Maybe you have to do something to > enable it. I used to use the centosplus kernel for that and reiserfs but > haven't used those drives for a while. If it is the classic stack of firewire drivers that are required, and there is nothing else needed from the centosplus kernel, a good solution is to get the kABI-tracking firewire modules from ELRepo: http://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=kmod-ieee1394 It provides: dv1394.ko eth1394.ko ieee1394.ko ohci1394.ko pcilynx.ko raw1394.ko sbp2.ko video1394.ko Because they survive kernel updates transparently and you can run the distro kernel, there will be no "waiting" for each kernel update. Akemi