[elrepo] LAN driver install w/o network?

[Alan Bartlett]

On 25 August 2011 19:16, James Bowery <jabowery at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [root at localhost ~]# lsmod | grep atl1e
> atl1e                  74988  0
>
> [root at localhost ~]# ls -l $(find /lib/modules -name atl1e)
> /lib/modules/2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64/extra/atl1e:
> total 128
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 128432 Jun 28 12:29 atl1e.ko
>
> /lib/modules/2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/atl1e:
> total 72
> -rwxr--r--. 1 root root 71648 May 19 22:36 atl1e.ko
>
> [root at localhost ~]# cat /etc/depmod.d/kmod-atl1e.conf
> override atl1e * weak-updates/atl1e
> [root at localhost ~]#

Hmm. Thank you for that information.

>From the first, the atl1e module is loaded. From the second, both the
distro and ELRepo versions of the module are available. From the
third, the ELRepo version of the module will be used in preference to
the distro version.

Everything looks correct, to me.

Silly question time. Do you know for sure if that LAN card is actually
operational?