[elrepo] via vb 8001 : vt1211 driver

[Phil Perry]

On 12/29/2009 01:05 PM, Adrian Sevcenco wrote:
> Phil Perry wrote:
>> On 12/29/2009 10:12 AM, Phil Perry wrote:
>>> On 12/29/2009 01:39 AM, Adrian Sevcenco wrote:
>>>> Hi! I have the hardware from $subj and it seems that i lack the vt1211
>>>> driver. Is it possible to be packaged for centos 5.4?
>>>> [adrian at localhost ~]$ uname -r
>>>> 2.6.18-164.9.1.el5
>>>>
>>>> Thank you very much!!
>>>> Adrian
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Hi Adrian,
>>>
>>> Thanks for posting here (Adrian brought this subject up on the CentOS ML's).
>>>
>>> I'll backport the driver for you and get it into the elrepo-testing
>>> repository for you to test within the next couple days. I'll post back
>>> here to this thread once done.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>
>> I've just uploaded kmod-vt1211 to elrepo-testing. It should show up on
> Hi! Thanks a lot!!!
>
>> yum in the next hour or so. It is backported from kernel-2.6.32.2 and is
>> kABI compliant with all versions of the RHEL-5 kernel.
>>
>> Please could you test and let me know how you get on.
> it seems that i have to wait a little bit more :)
>
> [root at sevcenco ~]# yum install kmod-vt1211 --enablerepo=elrepo-testing
> Loaded plugins: aliases, changelog, downloadonly, fastestmirror,
> filter-data, keys, kmod, list-data, priorities, protect-packages,
> protectbase, verify,
>                : versionlock
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>   * addons: ftp.nb.lug.ro
>   * base: ftp.nb.lug.ro
>   * extras: ftp.nb.lug.ro
>   * rpmforge: ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de
>   * updates: ftp.nb.lug.ro
> http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el5/x86_64/repodata/primary.xml.gz:
> [Errno 4] IOError:<urlopen error (111, 'Connection refused')>
> Trying other mirror.
> Error: failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from elrepo-testing: [Errno 256]
> No more mirrors to try.
>
> Many thanks!!
> Adrian
>

Oops - yes, we've been having a few issues with the repo server this 
morning. It should be back up now :)

If yum isn't finding it for you, you can manually grab the RPM package 
from here:

http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el5/x86_64/RPMS/

Regards,

Phil