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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">As a reminder you CAN get the source for the kernel that is on RHEL/CentOS and can compile your own with new drivers included OR you may find installable kernel
modules that work. If you do compile your own you have to remember you did that so if you did later do a “yum update” you would know to compile the newer kernel source with the same drivers added.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">What you really do NOT want to do is try to make a kernel base other than the one built for that RedHat release (5, 6 or 7) work as you’ll either fail miserably
or spend so much time getting it to work you’ll wonder why you didn’t just do Fedora, LFS or something similar.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Fedora by the way is bleeding edge – if having the latest/greatest is important that would be the way to go.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> ale-bounces@ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jim Kinney<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 20, 2015 12:27 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ale] CentOS 6.6 Kernels?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p>Centos needs the EPEL repo and rpmfusion for pre-7 to add licence problem kernel modules (wireless, nvidia). For 7, look for elrepo for the same abilities. Something changed structurewise with extra stuff when centos was officially sanctioned by redhat.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Oh. Look for li.nux for centos 7 desktop stuff similar to rpmfusion had for 6.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On May 20, 2015 12:22 PM, "Preston" <<a href="mailto:preston.lists@gmail.com">preston.lists@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On 5/20/2015 11:11 AM, Adrya Stembridge wrote:<br>
> > This does explain why Cent has so much trouble on laptops, however.<br>
><br>
> I'm running CentOS on one of my laptops and had zero issues with<br>
> installation or drivers. Not as fancy as Linux Mint or Fedora, but it<br>
> works well.<br>
><br>
I'm also running CentOS on a Dell laptop. No issues, although I might<br>
have had to do an extra step for the wireless. Can't remember now so it<br>
must have been trivial.<br>
<br>
Preston<br>
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