Thanks again Akemi and Peter. You have both been incredibly helpful and
I do appreciate it.
Sorry about the html. I guess I have much to learn both Centos and
etiquette,...:-)
As far as I can see one brute force approach would be to rebuild the
driver every boot. It is really very quick - and as Peter points out - i
automatically get the new kernel-devel package whenever I get a new
kernel - so it should always build the correct driver for the kernel.
Can you see any problem with this approach. If not - which start-up
script would seem like the best place to put the build instructions.
Richard.
Peter Kjellstrom wrote:
On Friday 29 June 2007, Richard Chapman wrote:
Hmmm... Thanks Peter
Actually - this is quite a big problem. It seems like new kernels come
along reasonably often - and my intention was to leave this machine in a
corner somewhere without any screen and manage it through nx and webmin. I
have seen the problem already because as soon as it was on the Internet it
got a new kernel - and after rebooting it couldn't find the eth0 again. I
did just the insmod part of the procedure - and the network came up again -
but as soon as I reboot it disappears again. I realise now that i really
need to repeat the whole procedure with the appropriate version of
kernel-devel. I have since done this, and it now boots OK.
Once you've installed kernel-devel once it will get updated along with your
kernel. However, rebuilding the module is something you won't get around
unless you script something to do it automatically if the module is missing.
Also, please don't send html e-mails to lists. It annoys more than a
few... ;-)
/Peter
I guess there is nothing I can do but wait and hope for redhat to fix the
driver - is there?
Richard.
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