[elrepo] RTL8125 driver for EL7

[Akemi Yagi]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 10:59 AM Manuel Wolfshant
<wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro> wrote:
>
> On 8/11/20 8:14 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 2:58 PM Guidroz, Bryan
> > <bryanguidroz at tpsdonline.org> wrote:
> >> Greetings,
> >>
> >> I'm not very familiar with how exactly this works, but I was pointed in this direction and am hoping someone can help me out.
> >>
> >> I'm wanting to use ClearOS (https://www.clearos.com/) on an Odroid-H2+ (https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h2plus/).
> >> This SBC has dual Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8125 2.5GbE Ethernet adapters onboard.
> >> ClearOS is a CentOS 7 derivative and does not currently include the R8125 driver.
> >> I have compiled the driver on Fedora 32 and CentOS 8 and had no issues or errors.
> >> I've been using this as my daily workstation (Fedora 32 with compiled driver) for about a week and everything has worked fine.
> >>
> >> To compile the driver, I followed the instructions here: https://wiki.odroid.com/odroid-h2/hardware/install_ethernet_driver_on_h2plus
> >>
> >> Using the the driver here: https://www.realtek.com/en/component/zoo/category/network-interface-controllers-10-100-1000m-gigabit-ethernet-pci-express-software
> >>
> >> I'm not sure if you need any additional info, but I've included basic info below.
> >> Thanks for any help you can provide.
> >>
> >> Bryan
> > I'm not sure if I understood the situation. You need to build the
> > r8125 driver. It went fine with Fedora-32 and CentOS-8. But it failed
> > with ClearOS-7 and that's what you want to achieve?
>
>
> I think that the idea was to provide the driver for RTL8125 via ElRepo
> because stock kernel for RHEL 7 does not include it.
>
>
> wolfy

OK, we could try it. One potential issue is that the ClearOS kernel is
not 100% binary compatible with RHEL. So the package will have to be
rebuilt for ClearOS.

Akemi