Bolt in a network card from a junk box, the older the better. Centos will find it. Configure. Use this to connect. Download centos update, which finds the drivers for the card you have on board and sets it up. Configure on board card as required. Shutdown;unbolt temporary junk box card and save. Restart
Centos is light on drivers in the install CD/DVD in 5 & 6 and the Rivendell Appliance reflects this. Had me confused because that other OS has no problem. regards Robert On Thu, 03 Jul 2014 18:48:06 -0700 Rich Stivers <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a new Lenovo PC with the latest Paravel Rivendell Appliance, > however the ethernet controller supplied > with this system will not connect to a router under CentOS 6. I know the > controller is good because when this > PC runs Windows 8, it connects to a router without any problems. > > lspci yields this - > > 03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. > RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] > (rev 09) > > > From the Appliance installation, Centos 6 assigns the r8169 driver to > this ethernet contro> big valleyller. It cannot > establish a connection with this driver. The above lspci output > indicates an r8168 driver is needed. I > downloaded and installed the r8168 driver from the ElRepo website. This > driver causes an odd situation. > The network icon in the top row of the desktop shows connection, yet I > cannot connect to the internet. An > 'ifconfig' for the controller shows the RX packets and TX packets are > both zero. > > Has anyone had problems with the above Ethernet controller with Centos > 6, and if so, how did you fix it? > It's entirely possible I did not install the driver correctly since I am > new to CentOS. > > I'm also open to abandoning this Realtek controller and using a USB > ethernet adaptor or another PCIE > ethernet controller as long as it known to work with Centos 6. Can > anyone recommend a USB NIC or > PCIE NIC? > > All comments welcome. > > Thanks, > Rich Stivers > KKUP-FM 91.5, Cupertino, CA > > -- Robert Jeffares <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
