On Wed, 9 Aug 2017, Akemi Yagi wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 4:27 AM, Bill Maidment <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>       Hi Pat
>       I have updated my test system with all the sl-testing updates
>       and after rebooting it doesn't recognise the on-board network
>       connection.
>       Motherboard is Asus M4N68T, but I don't know any details of the
>       network chip.
>       Rebooting to the old kernel recognises the on-board network
>       connection OK.
>       dmesg on the old kernel reveals
>
>       [    1.485449] r8169 0000:01:09.0 eth0: RTL8169sb/8110sb at
>       0xffffc90000c1ac00, a0:f3:c1:10:53:25, XID 10000000 IRQ 19
>       [    1.485451] r8169 0000:01:09.0 eth0: jumbo features [frames:
>       7152 bytes, tx checksumming: ok]
>       [    1.539302] forcedeth 0000:00:07.0: ifname eth0, PHY OUI
>       0x732 @ 1, addr e0:cb:4e:c2:6f:10
>
>       Perhaps I need to install a forcedeth driver for the new kernel?

The forcedeth driver is not supported at SL7, but is available in
elrepo.

If this driver was installed previously as a kmod driver then it should have
worked on the 7.4 upgrade; you probably should look for it with:

  rpm -qa |grep forcedeth

Do you recall how it was installed?

cheers, etc.
   denice
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