On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
Keith wrote ...
driver works fine in 5.2 . The EEE also needed a patched
ethernet driver with 5.0, while the driver in 5.2 worked fine.
I spoke too soon. After a reboot, the network went away - or else
I was not paying attention previously. The EEE PC Box uses a
Realtek 8168B, but for some reason the (updated) SL5.2 kernel calls
for the 8169 driver, which does not work. So I added rpmforge to
my yum repositories, then installed the dkms-8168 driver. I'm not
sure I did everything right - during boot it talks about the driver
already being loaded - but it works now. The steps:
<snip.
Note that the kernels which will come with the sl5.3 update seem to
include a somewhat updated version of the realtek 8168/8169 drivers.
Since on the next kernel-security-udpate you will probably get something
based on that you may need to check that the extra drivers you have added
don't get inteference from the standard kernel ones.
-- Jon
