[CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

Wed Jun 15 07:09:50 UTC 2011
Ljubomir Ljubojevic <office at plnet.rs>

Ron Blizzard wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Do you have something other than an intel wifi chip?
> 
> No, not any more. I had a Broadcom card, but an older laptop we gave
> away needed a WiFi card, so I invested $12 into an Intel card on eBay
> and installed the Broadcom card in the "old" laptop (it worked fine
> under Windows). I got the Broadcom working with FWCutter under CentOS,
> but its speed was all over the place. The thing I've never been able
> to get working in Linux Mint, is the hibernation. If I close the lid,
> it locks, unless I "hibernate" it first. But the main thing I don't
> like about Ubuntu/Mint is that each upgrade is an "adventure." Of
> course, CentOS 6 won't work on my laptop (no PAE) but I've still got
> CentOS 5.x for that. We'll see what issues it has on desktop. I'm
> hoping that installing the proprietary Nvidia drivers won't be the
> hassle they are under Linux Mint. Nouveau is getting better, but it's
> still not good enough.
> 
Since Pentium Pro, only old 400 MHz-bus versions of the Pentium M lack 
PAE support.
I have 3-4 years MSI VR-601 that works flawlessly on RHEL 6 Beta. I had 
to play with grub boot line (nomodeset) for better Intel graphics, and 
when I pull out power he hibernates, but it's working exceptionally well.

Ljubomir