James B. Byrne wrote: > Having replaced the suspect card and rebooted the host I see these > messages in /var/log/messages repeated over and over: <snip> > Aug 15 07:20:13 vhost01 kernel: r8169 0000:01:00.0: eth1: > RTL8168d/8111d at 0xffffc9001258c000, 00:0a:cd:1d:32:e7, XID 081000c0 > IRQ 30 > Aug 15 07:20:13 vhost01 kernel: r8169 0000:01:00.0: eth1: jumbo > features [frames: 9200 bytes, tx checksumming: ko] > Aug 15 07:20:14 vhost01 kernel: r8169 0000:01:00.0: eth1: invalid > firwmare > Aug 15 07:20:14 vhost01 kernel: r8169 0000:01:00.0: eth1: unable to > load firmware patch rtl_nic/rtl8168d-1.fw (-22) <snip> > So, what is going on? This host is the first one of two nearly > identically configured machines. The second host does not report or > evidence any problem with its eth1. My eyes uncrossed, and I saw, buried in there, the firstlink, above, and the last. You might want to see if a) the 8168d firmware patch will work on that card; b) vhost - it's a virtual host? perhaps it's trying to load the firmware patch to the real NIC, and as a guest VM, it doesn't have rights? mark _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos