On 9 February 2012 19:18, Jeff Siddall <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/09/2012 02:07 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote: >> >> May I suggest, to you, the ELRepo Project [1] and the kmod-r8168 package >> [2] ? >> > > Unfortunately I never even checked elrepo. Do you know if that package is > the same version that is currently on ReakTel's site? If so then using the > elrepo package would be a better idea than having to rebuild the source > every kernel upgrade. > > I do know my system has an uptime of 22 days vs. more like 22 minutes > (literally!) with the stock kernel. > > Thanks for the tip! > It should be (if end-users have taken the trouble to advise of any new tarballs available from the Realtek ftp server). If you take a look in your /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory, you should find that your have the relevant ELRepo Project repository file present but disabled by default.
Alan.
