[elrepo] RTL8125 driver for EL7

[Nick Howitt]

On 11/08/2020 20:09, Phil Perry wrote:
>
> On 11/08/2020 19:32, Akemi Yagi wrote:
>> 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
>
> We have built a kmod-r8125 package and released it to the main elrepo 
> repository. Packages are syncing to the mirrors and should be 
> available shortly:
>
> kmod-r8125-9.003.05-1.el7_8.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
> r8125-kmod-9.003.05-1.el7_8.elrepo.src.rpm
>
> Please would you test and let us know how you get on.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phil
>
I'm a bit late to this thread but ClearOS uses an untouched kernel from 
Centos so it looks like a vanilla EL7 kernel

NIck