I think these drivers were merged into a the kernel a bit later in the kernel than CentOS uses, although am a bit surprised upstream didn't backport. Before I set the machine up for proper, I tried a live Ubuntu disk which recognised the ethernet no problem, which lead me to figuring out what to do next for CentOS.
Before I bought this board, I must admit I tried to find a suitable modern board myself and didn't come up with much in the way of resources... I thought it ought to be documented in a wiki or something. I ended up doing some guesswork and taking pot-luck...
Before I bought this board, I must admit I tried to find a suitable modern board myself and didn't come up with much in the way of resources... I thought it ought to be documented in a wiki or something. I ended up doing some guesswork and taking pot-luck...
From: Robert Heller <heller@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, 6 July, 2009 2:46:10
Subject: Re: [CentOS] modern motherboard for centos-5
> Pardon my ignorance, but what's "forcedeth"?
On board Ethernet, part of the nVidia GForce chipset.
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