On Sun, 5 May 2013, Paul Robert Marino wrote:

> Elrepo is your problem they often push untested updated drivers.
> Use the drivers that came with the kernel they may not have all the features but they should work.
> Do not install kmod-8169.

At ELRepo we actually advise people to use the drivers that come with 
SL/RHEL/CentOS/ if those work fine. But we do provide alternative 
drivers (usually from the hardware vendor or a more recent kernel) for 
those people who lack support from their distribution and do need working 
hardware.

So I'd expect anyone turning to ELRepo for drivers to have an issue with 
the official drivers in one way or the other.

But it's true we don't (and cannot) test every driver against the myriad 
of hardware that it supports, and in those cases people request drivers we 
do have a staging repository for testing those drivers. On the other hand 
one would expect drivers from the vendor to be tested by the vendor.

Whatever the case, we provide an alternative, we don't force our drivers 
onto anyone. So if ELRepo is your problem, it must have been 
self-inflicted :)

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