[elrepo] LAN driver install w/o network?

[James Bowery]

Resolved.

I discovered the problem:

The DVD I used to install CentOS 6.0 did not say which architecture.  It was
i386.

So now I'm torrenting the x86_64 iso.

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Alan Bartlett <ajb at elrepo.org> wrote:

> On 25 August 2011 00:54, James Bowery <jabowery at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I know that the usual trick to install a LAN driver and all dependencies
> is
> > probably to yum install it from elrepo by putting in an old PCI ethernet
> > card, a known wireless USB adapter, a USB-ethernet adapter, etc., but I'm
> > stuck with a system where it will be difficult to do any of those.
> >
> > Is this kind of catch-22 so unusual that there is know well known
> procedure
> > for, say, downloading the entire el6 repo on a local system, burning it
> to
> > dvd(s) and loading it so yum has a local copy to work from?
> >
> > PS:  My driver is kmod-atl1e-1.0.1.14-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm and yes I
> did
> > thumb-drive it over and attempted a straight rpm -- no go due to
> > dependencies.
>
> Hi James,
>
> Sorry to ask a series of questions but:
>
> (1) what dependencies?
> (2) are you sure you require the atl1e driver?
> (3) what is the Vendor:Device ID pairing for the LAN card?
>
> I have never known the classic "sneakernet" technique to fail . . .
>
> Regards,
> Alan.
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