on 11-18-2008 10:03 AM MHR spake the following: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Phil Schaffner > <Philip.R.Schaffner@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Same here; however, on a similar-but-different Shuttle box I bought for my >> son recently the only Linux I could get to install was the Ubuntu Intrepid >> Ibex beta (release version 8.10 is now out). Tried several other recent >> Linux versions including CentOS 5, Fedora 9 (haven't tried 10 pre-release >> yet), OpenSuse, PClinuxOS, Knoppix, and Ubuntu Hardy. None could see the >> disk. Windoze XP worked. :-( >> >> An enterprise Linux should never be expected to support the latest hardware. >> Maybe CentOS 5.3 or 6 when they hit the e-street??? Until then, you may >> well be stuck with some more bleeding-edge release. >> > > That's true, but, still, if XP can handle it, it seems as though > CentOS 5, which is six years newer than XP, should be able to handle > it.... > > OTTOMH.... > > mhr But windows drivers usually load and probe the hardware on install, but linux usually depends on the PCI id's to load modules. So windows will try and load a driver, and if it doesn't bomb, record that it works and keep using it. The linux install effectively looks at the PCI id numbers and looks for a match in the /lib/modules/modules.* files. A linux driver can sometimes be coaxed to load just by editing one of these files, but not always. Some of the kernel patches are just edits to the modules.pcimap file. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!
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