At Fri, 9 Sep 2011 12:01:04 -0700 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 07:57:41PM +0100, Janne Nyman wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > unless you are doing this for a specific reason (ie eval/training) > > > would advise that centos is not really a laptop distribution > > > despite what redhat may try to suggest. > > > > > > best desktop/laptop in my opinion is mageia > > > > > > regards peter > > >> I am trying to install CentOS 6 x86_64 on a Lenovo Thinkpad x220. > > >> > > >> During the installation it asks me to insert a driver. > > >> > > >> Has anyone done this successfully? > > >> > > > > > > > > Hi Peter, thanks for your feedback. > > > > I guess the reason I am doing it, is as I love the way CentOS works, > > I.e. the stability and performance. I am currently running it on a > > ThinkPad Edge 11 and all seems to work great. > > > > Just looks like the e1000e NIC driver is not working with the kernel > > in 6.0. I have also tried this with RHEL 6.1 but that also gets me > > stuck at the booting of the x220. > > > > I have tried to understand how the "load driver disk" works with > > CentOS and RHEL based systems, but I am failing to get it working. > > > > I have got my hands on the e1000e driver and patched the initrd but > > still no go. > > > > That's why I wanted to check if anyone else has got this working :) > > > > Anyone else? > > I haven't tried, but I think RHEL/CentOS on a laptop _should_ work > fine, albeit, as you have experienced with some minor driver issues. :) I've run WBL 3.0, CentOS 4 and (presently) CentOS 5 on my laptops. *I* don't really like Ubuntu and do really favor eye-candy heavy operating systems -- I never used MS-Windows (and loath dealing with it), and only tolerate MacOSX, mainly because I can always revert to using the Terminal application. RHEL works quite well on laptops (but mostly older ones, due to driver issues). > > My preference is to pull from elrepo whenever possible. They actually > have an e1000e driver: > > http://jur-linux.org/download/elrepo/elrepo/el6/i386/RPMS/ > > Ray > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / heller at deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments