[elrepo] r8169 driver for 7.5

[Akemi Yagi]

On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 10:29 AM, Nick Howitt <nick at howitts.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On 22/05/2018 18:02, Akemi Yagi wrote:

>> By the way does the in-kernel r8169 driver not work for you?
>>
>> Akemi
>
> The in-kernel driver does work but I have a problem. My box has both an
> r8168 and r8169 card in it. The kmod-r8168 blacklists the r8169 driver to
> stop it from loading. If I remove the blacklist, it sometimes loads against
> the r8168 card and sometimes it does not. Installing the kmod-r8169 driver
> removes the 8168 PCI ID from its compatibility list. This allows me to
> remove the blacklist and have both drivers automatically load against the
> correct NIC's. I did try taking this up on the lists with the 7.4 upgrade,
> suggesting the r8168 driver stopped blacklisting the r8169 and instead
> installed the kmod-r8169 as a dependency, but I was told no.
>
> Regards, Nick

OK, we have released the kmod-r8169 package built against the 7.5
kernel to the elrepo-testing repo:

kmod-r8169-6.020.00-3.el7_5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm

Can you give it a try?

Akemi