[elrepo] How to add r8168 kmod to kernel src tree

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 12/20/2011 08:12 AM, Scott Johnson wrote:
> Currently, my server uses the r8169 nic driver, but it fails to come
> up about half the time during pxeboot:
>
> r8169: eth0: link down
> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
>
> > From my internet search and forum browsing, looks like one solution
> might be to use the r8168 driver instead.  My lspci output seems to
> support what others have done as well.  However, I don't see the r8168
> kmod available in the kernel menuconfig.  I need to build my nic
> driver into a bzImage for pxeboot.
>
> I can get the r8168 src from the Realtek website and there is a kmod
> package here on elrepo.org, however what I need is to build the r8168
> driver into a kernel bzImage, instead of just built as a module.
>
> Anyone know how I can patch the kernel tree to include the r8168
> driver?  Maybe there is some good help somewhere on how to do this?
the preferred method is to use a driver disk.  
http://dup.et.redhat.com/ddiskit/ is the official tool to create such 
disks. at http://www.kerneldrivers.org/RHEL5 you can find some 
instructions.  with a bit of tweaking you can use the kmods supplied by 
elrepo