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Hi all, It seems that with the release of the X99 motherboards, a lot of vendors are shifting away from using Realtek ethernet on board NICs and using Intel. Our main distro. on the floor is Centos 6.2 for numerous reasons. Efforts are being made toward 7.1, but not there yet. Anyway, the new Intel NICs are recognised by Centos 6.6 netinstall ISO when booting, but not Centos 6.2. I have had the

...t. > ... but I'm hoping I've missed a step. > Hi, Rory, You need to be on 6.7, not 6.2. There are more security and bug fixes in 6.7 over 6.2 than just a NIC driver enhancement. There are probably very few reasons to stay at 6.2 versus 6.7, and many more reasons to update to 6.7 posthaste. Yes, you need the newer kernel, and you may need other pieces of 6.7 as well for the newer kernel to even work. CentOS does not and never has supported staying at a particular point release. If you need this functionality, CentOS is not the right distribution for you; try Scientific Linux,...

...39;ve missed a step. >> >> Hi, Rory, > > You need to be on 6.7, not 6.2. There are more security and bug fixes in > 6.7 over 6.2 than just a NIC driver enhancement. There are probably very > few reasons to stay at 6.2 versus 6.7, and many more reasons to update to > 6.7 posthaste. > > Yes, you need the newer kernel, and you may need other pieces of 6.7 as > well for the newer kernel to even work. > > CentOS does not and never has supported staying at a particular point > release. If you need this functionality, CentOS is not the right > distribution f...