On 9 February 2012 19:18, Jeff Siddall <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 02/09/2012 02:07 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote:
>>
>> May I suggest, to you, the ELRepo Project [1] and the kmod-r8168 package
>> [2] ?
>>
>
> Unfortunately I never even checked elrepo.  Do you know if that package is
> the same version that is currently on ReakTel's site?  If so then using the
> elrepo package would be a better idea than having to rebuild the source
> every kernel upgrade.
>
> I do know my system has an uptime of 22 days vs. more like 22 minutes
> (literally!) with the stock kernel.
>
> Thanks for the tip!
>
It should be (if end-users have taken the trouble to advise of any new
tarballs available from the Realtek ftp server). If you take a look in
your /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory, you should find that your have the
relevant ELRepo Project repository file present but disabled by
default.

Alan.