At Fri, 9 Sep 2011 12:01:04 -0700 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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. :)
I've run WBL 3.0, CentOS 4 and (presently) CentOS 5 on my laptops. *I*
don't really like Ubuntu and do really favor eye-candy heavy operating
systems -- I never used MS-Windows (and loath dealing with it), and
only tolerate MacOSX, mainly because I can always revert to using the
Terminal application. RHEL works quite well on laptops (but mostly
older ones, due to 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
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