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. :) 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