On 9 February 2012 20:07, Jeff Siddall <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/09/2012 02:27 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote: >> >> 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. Â Do you know if that package >>> is >>> the same version that is currently on ReakTel's site? Â 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. >> > > > Yes, I have elrepo enabled. My problem was I just didn't look for such a > package! > And I must confess that the package set was not up to date! However, that is being rectified as I type. The EL6 repository now has the latest version "028" package and the EL5 repository will do so, shortly. Announcements are now on the "ToDo" list. :)
Alan.
