On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 05:18:05AM +0100, Charles Elsaesser wrote:
>
> artheros-8161 device not recognized by linux : missing driver
> 


Historically, SL/CentOS was not the place for freshest drivers and support of latest hardware.

(That was before ELREPO, etc)

Historically, Knoppix and Ubuntu had all the latest drivers, etc.

So before you give up on Linux, please try Knoppix and Ubuntu.

(And a fresh new Knoppix was just released!)


>
> attempt of compiling alx driver as explained at
> http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/alx
> failed and following outputs are joined.
> 
> Has it a sense to recompile linux kernel 3.3 on a native older system?
> 


SL4 and SL5 had no big problems running on vanilla linux kernels.

Combination of SL6 and vanilla linux kernel 3.3 would probably work okey,
as long as you know which kernel options to enable...


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