I am trying to install an HP NC364T (4 port ethernet adapter) onto a machine running CentOS 7, however HP only supplies drivers built for RedHat, SCO, SUSE, Sun and Solaris. I know CentOS is intended to be binary compatible with RedHat but installing any of their driver versions leads to dependency problems and a failure to install.
Of the RedHat offerings they are supplying drivers compatible with RHEL 6 Server, RHEL 5 Server, RHEL 4 and RHEL 3.
Many drivers fail as they claim to be incompatible, but the 5 and 6 drivers at least attempt to install, but fail on dependencies.
This might end up being a question of how to resolve dependencies, but I at least want to know which version of RedHat that CentOS 7 is meant to be akin to.
Best Answer
CentOS is based on RHEL directly. CentOS 7 is based on RHEL7 and so that's the version of RHEL most compatible. Since about CentOS 5 (I think) they've tried to match the CentOS version numbers with the RHEL version numbers. So CentOS 6 was RHEL 6 and CentOS 8 will be RHEL 8.
You may have to either do without the drivers or downgrade to Cent OS 6. If it's on Cent OS 7 already, that can't be an old install anyways.