[Server-devel] CentOS hardware support doubts

[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 too old to support this hardware.
>
> For the next XS release, Martin suggests that CentOS 6.2 (or another
> RHEL equivalent) is used as a base. As my contribution here will
> likely be limited to just this rebase, I'm prepared to accept that
> preference.
>
> 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 problem as F9 is presented: no network
> adapter.
>
> Digging further, I see that support was added to the Linux kernel for
> this particular network adapter (Atheros AR8152) on February 16th,
> 2010. However, since CentOS 6.2 uses a kernel from 2009, it does not
> support this hardware. This seems excessively old for a distro that
> was released in December 2011, and I imagine that we will see many
> such problems if we run with this.
>
> With this in mind, is there still a strong preference to go with
> CentOS, or would a more recent Fedora (e.g. 16/17?) be a better
> choice?
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
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Hi Daniel,
Moving to CentOS or some enterprise Linux makes sense for rebasing XS on
but given the limitations with hardware compatibility, this might be a
blocker. New hardware are being used at deployments so probably we might
have to stick with newer versions of Fedora.

-- 
Abhishek Singh
System Engineer
Open Learning Exchange (OLE) Nepal
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