Re: [CentOS] modern motherboard for centos-5

2009-07-15 Thread Ian Murray
d and it's working fine for what I wanted. From: Ned Slider To: CentOS mailing list Sent: Tuesday, 14 July, 2009 23:54:15 Subject: Re: [CentOS] modern motherboard for centos-5 Scott Silva wrote: > on 7-6-2009 2:50 AM Ian Murray spake the following: >

Re: [CentOS] modern motherboard for centos-5

2009-07-14 Thread Ned Slider
Scott Silva wrote: > on 7-6-2009 2:50 AM Ian Murray spake the following: >> I think these drivers were merged into a the kernel a bit later in the >> kernel than CentOS uses, although am a bit surprised upstream didn't >> backport. > Upstream usually only backports additions like this at point rele

Re: [CentOS] modern motherboard for centos-5

2009-07-14 Thread Scott Silva
on 7-6-2009 2:50 AM Ian Murray spake the following: > I think these drivers were merged into a the kernel a bit later in the > kernel than CentOS uses, although am a bit surprised upstream didn't > backport. Upstream usually only backports additions like this at point releases. Between point releas

Re: [CentOS] modern motherboard for centos-5

2009-07-06 Thread Ian Murray
g pot-luck... From: Robert Heller To: CentOS mailing list Cc: CentOS mailing list Sent: Monday, 6 July, 2009 2:46:10 Subject: Re: [CentOS] modern motherboard for centos-5 > Pardon my ignorance, but what's "forcedeth"? On board Ethernet, part

Re: [CentOS] modern motherboard for centos-5

2009-07-05 Thread fred smith
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 09:03:59PM +0800, The Eye In The Sky wrote: > fred smith wrote: > > I'm considering upgrading, and am trying to choose a modern motherboard > > that nevertheless fully works with Centos5/RHEL5. > > > > Though I'm partial to AMD processors, and would like to use one in my > >

Re: [CentOS] modern motherboard for centos-5

2009-07-05 Thread Robert Heller
At Sun, 5 Jul 2009 21:35:31 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 05:05:30AM -0700, Ian Murray wrote: > > Well, despite what you say about ASUS, I recently bought an M3N78-VM > > (http://www.ebuyer.com/product/152752 - although the net card specs are > > wrong) bec

Re: [CentOS] modern motherboard for centos-5

2009-07-05 Thread fred smith
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 05:05:30AM -0700, Ian Murray wrote: > Well, despite what you say about ASUS, I recently bought an M3N78-VM > (http://www.ebuyer.com/product/152752 - although the net card specs are > wrong) because it was cheap and it supported 8gb. The only problem was the > lack for for

Re: [CentOS] modern motherboard for centos-5

2009-07-05 Thread The Eye In The Sky
fred smith wrote: > I'm considering upgrading, and am trying to choose a modern motherboard > that nevertheless fully works with Centos5/RHEL5. > > Though I'm partial to AMD processors, and would like to use one in my > new configuration, that's not a requirement, if the most appropriate > board ha

Re: [CentOS] modern motherboard for centos-5

2009-07-05 Thread Ian Murray
Well, despite what you say about ASUS, I recently bought an M3N78-VM (http://www.ebuyer.com/product/152752 - although the net card specs are wrong) because it was cheap and it supported 8gb. The only problem was the lack for forcedeth drivers in standard CentOS, which I download from somewhere e

Re: [CentOS] modern motherboard for centos-5

2009-07-04 Thread fred smith
On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 10:18:56AM -0700, nate wrote: > fred smith wrote: > > I'm considering upgrading, and am trying to choose a modern motherboard > > that nevertheless fully works with Centos5/RHEL5. > > What role is that system going to play? > > I assume server because I'd put money down th

Re: [CentOS] modern motherboard for centos-5

2009-07-04 Thread nate
fred smith wrote: > I'm considering upgrading, and am trying to choose a modern motherboard > that nevertheless fully works with Centos5/RHEL5. What role is that system going to play? I assume server because I'd put money down that in excess of 99% of CentOS installations are servers. (that numbe