Troy Dawson wrote:
> Francois Colonna wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>>
>> with  kernel  42.0.2.ELsmp
>> it is impossible for me to make the network card (Realtek) be recognized
>>
>> dmesg | grep eth0
>>
>> gives an empty answer
>>
>> while with the 2.6.9-34.0.2.ELsmp kernel it gave :
>>
>> eth0: Identified chip type is 'RTL8168B/8111B'.
>> eth0: r10001.0, the Linux device driver for Realtek Ethernet 
>> Controllers at 0xc800, 00:17:31:25:6b:37, IRQ 169
>> eth0: Auto-negotiation Enabled.
>> eth0: 100Mbps Full-duplex operation.
>> eth0: no IPv6 routers present
>>
>> How to make things work ?
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> François Colonna
>
> Hello,
> I'm sorry, I kept meaning to reply to your e-mail but kept getting 
> sidetracked.
>
> When you are booted up into that kernel, you need to do a
>
> /sbin/depmod -a
>
> That will get that kernel module loaded in so the kernel recognizes it 
> and loads it at bootup.
> As I look at the postinall scripts for my kernel module's, I'm seeing 
> that they aren't all consistant.  They are supposed to do this for 
> you, but it looks like for the r1000 it only does it if you are 
> running the kernel that the module was made for ... which isn't going 
> to be the case if you are doing an upgrade.
> I'll work on fixing that.
> Troy

It started working as soon as I run the command /sbin/depmod -a
Thank you very much.

François Colonna