Re: [Server-devel] CentOS hardware support doubts

2012-02-03 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Samuel Greenfeld wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: >> >> I've now seen 3 failure cases - the AR8152 mentioned above, and >> another case which I only had time to do a quick boot check of >> F9/C6/F16 (F16 was the only one that recognise

Re: [Server-devel] CentOS hardware support doubts

2012-02-03 Thread Samuel Greenfeld
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: > I've now seen 3 failure cases - the AR8152 mentioned above, and > another case which I only had time to do a quick boot check of > F9/C6/F16 (F16 was the only one that recognised the onboard NIC of the > asrock motherboard). > > Yesterday we r

Re: [Server-devel] CentOS hardware support doubts

2012-02-03 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: > I'm worried about the expertise required in order to identify such > repos and packages. We need this process to be doable without me in > the room. Agreed. > I assume that RHEL is pretty good for server-class hardware found in > US/EU; I can

Re: [Server-devel] CentOS hardware support doubts

2012-02-03 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: > On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Martin Langhoff > wrote: >> I assume here that CentOS is reasonably in sync with RHEL. Does >> http://elrepo.org/bugs/print_bug_page.php?bug_id=126 help? More >> generally, does any of the external repos have a

Re: [Server-devel] CentOS hardware support doubts

2012-02-03 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > I assume here that CentOS is reasonably in sync with RHEL. Does > http://elrepo.org/bugs/print_bug_page.php?bug_id=126 help? More > generally, does any of the external repos have a kmod-staging or > kmod-atl1e that works for you? I've retur

Re: [Server-devel] CentOS hardware support doubts

2012-02-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: > However, having installed/run CentOS 6.2 for the first time I now have > my doubts about this. I installed it on a server where the network > interface does not appear with F9 (but does work with more recent > Fedora). With CentOS, the same pr

Re: [Server-devel] CentOS hardware support doubts

2012-02-01 Thread Carlos Daniel Garay Ayala
Hi, You can try the work done by Alsroot: http://gitorious.paraguayeduca.org/paraguayeduca-server is based on Ubuntu server. Regards, Carlos 2012/2/1 Abhishek Singh : > On 02/01/2012 01:15 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Like others, I'm interested in moving the XS to a newer OS base. M

Re: [Server-devel] CentOS hardware support doubts

2012-01-31 Thread Abhishek Singh
On 02/01/2012 01:15 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: > Hi, > > Like others, I'm interested in moving the XS to a newer OS base. My > key motivation for this is that the Foundation Zamora Teran (OLPC > Nicaragua) is having difficulty buying servers for new schools being > added to the project - Fedora 9 is t

[Server-devel] CentOS hardware support doubts

2012-01-31 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Like others, I'm interested in moving the XS to a newer OS base. My key motivation for this is that the Foundation Zamora Teran (OLPC Nicaragua) is having difficulty buying servers for new schools being added to the project - Fedora 9 is too old to support this hardware. For the next XS relea