On 9 February 2012 20:07, Jeff Siddall <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 02/09/2012 02:27 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote:
>>
>> 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. Â Do you know if that package
>>> is
>>> the same version that is currently on ReakTel's site? Â 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.
>>
>
>
> Yes, I have elrepo enabled.  My problem was I just didn't look for such a
> package!
>
And I must confess that the package set was not up to date! However,
that is being rectified as I type. The EL6 repository now has the
latest version "028" package and the EL5 repository will do so,
shortly. Announcements are now on the "ToDo" list. :)

Alan.