[CentOS] Request advise regarding Driver for Intel Motherboard

Tue Sep 8 21:45:44 UTC 2009
Ned Slider <ned at unixmail.co.uk>

Sanjay Arora wrote:
>> I believe this is the one you want:
>> http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el5/i386/RPMS/kmod-r8169-6.010.00_NAPI-2.el5.elrepo.i686.rpm
>>
>> Or if you're running the Xen kernel:
>> http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el5/i386/RPMS/kmod-r8169-xen-6.010.00_NAPI-2.el5.elrepo.i686.rpm
>>
>> Once you get your network setup right, I advise you to set up the
>> elrepo repository (see http://elrepo.org for instructions on how to do
>> it) so you get updates for this module once newer versions are
>> released.
> 
> Thanks Filipe
> 
> Never knew about this repo.
> 
> Will try and post back.
> 
> Sanjay.

There is also information at the top of this page (below) that explains 
how to identify the correct driver for your hardware by querying the 
vendor:device ID pairing and comparing to the list of supported devices 
here:

http://elrepo.org/tiki/DeviceIDs

Hope that helps.