[lug] Was Linux on Intel Atom / Question about Drivers

[Stephen Queen]

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Jason Vallery <jason at vallery.net> wrote:
> I have an MSI Wind desktop
> (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856167032) which has
> a 1.6 GHz Atom in it.  It works great as my development LAMP server.  I ran
> into a few problems trying to load CentOS 5.3 on it because the network card
> wasn't supported.  I ended up not wanting to deal with it and loaded Fedora
> 10 and it works fine.  I also put a 32GB SSD in it for kicks since I didn't
> need much disk space.  It is crazy fast doing a file transfer over gigabit
> ethernet.
> -Jason
>

I see people saying things like this a lot. It always makes me curious
why they just don't recompile the kernel with the driver they want
enabled as a module?

Do some distributions add drivers to the kernel source tree that others don't?

Steve