On Wed, August 15, 2012 09:26, m.roth@5-cent.us 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.