Posts Tagged ‘centos’

Enabling networking in CentOS 5.2 on my ASUS P6T Deluxe

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Update : below stopped working after upgrading the kernel to version 2.6.18-92.1.22. Trying to find out why :-|

Update2 : okay I was too fast probably, seems to be working fine after a reboot :-)

The 2 onboard Marvell 88E8056 PCI-E ethernet on my P6T Deluxe weren’t autodetected by CentOS 5.2.

Got this workaround from the CentOS bugtracker :

# modprobe sky2
# echo “11ab 4364″ > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/sky2/new_id

It works! :-)

There’s a warning of data corruption on Gigabyte boards with this workaround, so better check first and do some more looking if you’re in that category.

Installing RHEL 5 packages on CentOS 5

Sunday, October 14th, 2007

Good idea is to make /etc/redhat-release
look like : Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5 (Tikanga)

Might suppress a few errors because of failed OS detection for example.