[elrepo] r8169 driver for 7.5

Nick Howitt nick at howitts.co.uk
Thu May 24 08:01:51 EDT 2018


>> 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
>
Thanks. I have it compiled and running (after removing the blacklist 
file from the r8168 driver).

Nick


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