On Wed, August 15, 2012 09:26, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > 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? > vhost is a kvm host system, not a virtualized guest. As I wrote elsewhere, I installed the kmod package from elrepo that handles this device, which solution I believe you may have originally suggested to me. In any case, that seems to have solved the problem (fingers crossed). Thanks for the help. I appreciate it very much. Sorry about your eyes. But when things are totally unfamiliar to me I hesitate to trim error logs lest out of ignorance I remove what is really important. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos