[elrepo] Intel DG41RQ Motherboard & RTL 8168 (kmod-r8168-xen)

[Sanjay Arora]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Akemi Yagi<toracat at elrepo.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Sanjay Arora<sanjay.k.arora at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thread continued from
>> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-September/081789.html as
>> subject matter now relates to elrepo packages.
>>
>> Problem is that the Intel board is nor recognizing the onboard 8168
>> nic. Tried to install the elrepo driver on my fresh centos v. 5.0
>> install but kernel dependencies seem to be unresolved and error
>> messages don't show the kernel version required, but shows the hashes
>> of the kernel modules required.
>
> I just performed a test install as follows:
>
> [root at nova3 test]# rpm -q kernel-xen
> kernel-xen-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5.i686
>
> [root at nova3 test]# rpm -ivh kmod-r8168-xen-8.014.00_NAPI-1.el5.elrepo.i686.rpm
> Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
>   1:kmod-r8168-xen         ########################################### [100%]
>
> [root at nova3 test]# ls -l `find /lib/modules -name r8168.ko`
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    49 Sep  9 09:27
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-128.7.1.el5xen/weak-updates/r8168/r8168.ko ->
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5xen/extra/r8168/r8168.ko
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 68596 Sep  9 03:09
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5xen/extra/r8168/r8168.ko
>
> As you can see, there was no error during the installation of
> kmod-r8168-xen and the symbolic link was created as expected.
>
> What is the error message that you get?  Can you paste the output?
> Also, what do you see with:
>
> rpm -qa kernel\* | sort
>

I am still having a problem. Strangely cannot catch rpm -ivh xxxx.rpm
errors, whole screenful of them, to disk by redirecting them to a file
using "> file" redirection.

But noticed some things...I am using x86_64 version of the
rpm...kmod-r8168-xen-8.012.00_NAPI-2.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm to be
precise and my rpm -q kernel-xen gives kernel-xen-2.6.18-6.el5

Regarding the type of error..am typing in one line here...

kernel(rhel5_mm_ga) = 7575757hhjf686hhfu7t7uufugu6dgt7t8t6giut8tiutu
is needed by kmod-r8168-xen-8.012.00_NAPI-2.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm

many lines like the one above, some specific to 64 bit linux. hash
typed above is not from actual error...just something i typed
arbitrarily....was too afraid to read the actual hash and reproduce it
by typing, as redirection had failed.

Comments?
Sanjay.