[elrepo] Announcement: EL6 Updated kmod-r8169 Release [Version 6.016.00]

Alan Bartlett ajb at elrepo.org
Thu Feb 9 19:02:52 EST 2012


Announcing the release of updated kmod-r8169 packages into the EL6
elrepo repository:

http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-r8169

This package provides an updated r8169 driver, version 6.016.00, and
is kABI compatible with all kernels from 6.0 (kernel-2.6.32-71.el6)
upwards.

It is built to depend upon the specific ABI provided by a range of
releases of the same variant of the Linux kernel and not on any one
specific build.

The following files are currently syncing to the mirrors:

x86
kmod-r8169-6.016.00-1.el6.elrepo.i686.rpm

x86_64
kmod-r8169-6.016.00-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm

SRPMS
r8169-kmod-6.016.00-1.el6.elrepo.src.rpm

You may update your system by:

yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=elrepo update kmod-r8169

Once the package has been updated, remember to unload the older driver
from the kernel:

/sbin/ifdown ethN
/sbin/modprobe -r r8169
/sbin/modprobe r8169
/sbin/ifup ethN

Thank you,

The ELRepo Team.



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