I made the mistake of assuming all Intel motherboards would be Linux compatible out of the box and bought one without checking support information. And now on initial install the Network is not working....the Network port is not detected at all. I have bought an Intel board DG41RQI (http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/DG41RQ/index.htm) which does not support Linux Out of Box. I am using a Core 2 Duo E7200 64 bit processor. I am installing CentOS 5.x XEN, minimal install for a XEN dom0. The Intel Linux Support page links to this page here http://forgeftp.novell.com/driver-process/pub/update/realtek/sle10sp2/common/i586/ and lists a lot of drivers. Can someone please advise me which ones I need to install for my particular motherboard & processor type? Also, will these drivers clash with yum updatation from CentOS repos? Can someone please guide and if possible, comment on issues I will face. Intend to install minimal xen dom0 install and couple of low utilization servers and linux desktop. Also, would like to know if I can install Windows XP on same desktop under XEN. Install is CentOS 5.0. Will be updating after network starts working. Tried to install driver file realtek-r8169-kmp-smp-8.008.00_2.6.16.60_0.21-0.i586.rpm from the list using the rpm command....(yum would ask for dependencies and will need to update), but it seems that this file needs a lot of kernel modules....listing them below (but strangely rpm output does not seem to show version numbers required, instead shows a hash required. Have given an example at the end of list... kernel(kernel) kernel(drivers) kernel(drivers_pci) kernel(kernel_irq) kernel(init) kernel(net_sched) kernel(security) kernel(arch_i386_mm) kernel(lib) kernel(net_ethernet) kernel(mm) kernel(vmlinux) Instead of stating kernel.x.x.x is required by xxxx.xx.i586.rpm it states kernel(vmlinux) = d0dc9b0f03309730 is needed by xx.xx.i586.rpm Does this mean I will need a custom kernel and will not be able to use the normal kernel from centos repo or even dag repo? Also, tried to install XENSERVER FREE, it states that Hardware Assist support is not available on this system. Either it is not present or disabled in BIOS. BUT, checked http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Core_2/Intel-Core%202%20Duo%20E7500%20AT80571PH0773M%20-%20AT80571PH0773ML%20%28BX80571E7500%29.html and it seems that the processor has Virtualization support & I have enabled it in BIOS. Does anyone know what is the problem? With best regards. Sanjay. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users