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List:       centos
Subject:    Re: [CentOS] Centos & USB3
From:       Lamar Owen <lowen () pari ! edu>
Date:       2016-09-27 23:21:55
Message-ID: f5c80782-f44f-7c8d-8adf-fabb3e819adc () pari ! edu
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On 09/27/2016 11:55 AM, Always Learning wrote:
> * in C6.5 (my install disk; OS be updated to C6.8) USB2 works but USB3
> does not.

It is a bit confusing how you worded this.  Are you saying that you have 
already installed 6.5 and fully updated it to 6.8?

> Please does anyone have any ideas how to solve this baffling
> time-consuming problem ?
>
> Is is a UEFI (motherboard Asrock 970A-G/3.1) configuration matter or
> potentially the absence of a suitable USB3 driver for Centos ?
You're probably not going to like my suggestion.  Try CentOS 7.2 on this 
board and see what it finds.

There comes a time in every EL release cycle where new hardware is no 
longer well-supported.  CentOS 5 is way past that, and CentOS 6, while 
not as far past it is still too old to install on some of the newest 
hardware.  Even CentOS 7 has issues with some of the newest hardware.

You have the double-whammy of UEFI and a newer chipset.  While CentOS 
6.8 can handily support USB3 on some hardware (been there, done that 
myself, with CentOS 6.5 if I recall on a Dell Latitude D830 with an 
ExpressCard XHCI (USB3) controller that worked great).

You can of course try the ELrepo kernel-lt or kernel-ml packages, which 
provide the LongTerm or MainLine kernels packaged for CentOS.


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