[elrepo] More 7.4 incompatible drivers

[Nick Howitt]

Hi Phil,

One thing I noticed in the summer last year but did not isolate at all 
was that when I was running both the r8168 and r8169 drivers in a box 
which had both cards, the 8169 NIC would not come up on boot and had to 
be modprobed after boot. I got round it by:

echo "modprobe r8169" > /etc/sysconfig/modules/r8169.modules
chmod +x /etc/sysconfig/modules/r8169.modules

This got the driver to load much earlier in the boot sequence.

The person who tested the via-rhine driver found the same here: 
https://www.clearos.com/clearfoundation/social/community/clearos-7-4-beta#reply-190651 
(and the following post) with drivers compiled for 7.4.

Regards,

Nick

On 04/10/2017 19:45, Phil Perry wrote:
>
> On 04/10/17 14:19, Nick Howitt wrote:
>> Hi Phil,
>>
>> As the r8169 does not carry 7_4 in its file name, does that mean it 
>> is backwards compatible with earlier kernels/versions of EL7?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Nick
>>
>
> No, the newly built package is only compatible with the 7.4 kernel, 
> but I didn't know that at the time of rebuilding it.
>
> Phil
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