On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:03 AM, Keith Lofstrom <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Keith wrote ...
>> driver works fine in 5.2 .  The EEE also needed a patched
>> ethernet driver with 5.0, while the driver in 5.2 worked fine.
>
> I spoke too soon.  After a reboot, the network went away - or else
> I was not paying attention previously.  The EEE PC Box uses a
> Realtek 8168B, but for some reason the (updated) SL5.2 kernel calls
> for the 8169 driver, which does not work.  So I added rpmforge to
> my yum repositories, then installed the dkms-8168 driver.  I'm not
> sure I did everything right - during boot it talks about the driver
> already being loaded - but it works now.  The steps:

You might want to take a look at this CentOS wiki:

http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/HardwareList/RealTekRTL8111b

In the section "Solution", look for (3) that offers the kmod package
for this driver.  A little more detail will be found in this CentOS
forum thread:

http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=17854&forum=39&post_id=64799#forumpost64799

Akemi