On 06/26/2008 07:39 PM, Kirk Bocek wrote: > Howdy, > It appears that CentOS 5.2's support for the RTL8111B/C chip is > incomplete. The wiki has some blanket statements regarding this support: > > http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/HardwareList/CentOS5/RealTek/r1000 > > > http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/HardwareList/RealTekRTL8111b > > I could dive in an make the changes *I* think need to happen but I'd > like to talk to people first. > > The gritty details: > > Last night I attempted to install 5.2 x86_64 on a new Gigabyte > GA-G31M-S2L. This motherboard has an RTL8111C NIC on-board. After PXE > booting into the 5.2 installer, the installer hung while waiting for > DHCP information. Checking the various consoles, it's clear that the > installer identified the NIC and loaded the r8169 driver. But the > driver obviously failed. > > After copying in Realtek's r8168-8.006.00 and manually installing it > on the existing 5.1 installation, the NIC works fine. > > So the wiki pages need to be updated. Any ideas how to proceed? Kirk, I've updated the http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/HardwareList/RealTekRTL8111b wiki page in order the reflect the fact that some boards are not supported. Feel free to edit it if you think that I've missed something. Manuel PS: I still would like to see the ethernet section from the output of lspci -v on your board.
