On Feb 8, 2008 7:30 PM, Ned Slider <nedslider at f2s.com> wrote: > >>> Or could you also provide the instructions that > >>> will help "newbies" install this driver? There was someone who was > >>> looking for the driver for this particular card. He could not > >>> understand the wiki and therefore was asking if there is some easier > >>> method. > >>> > >> Well, IF a link to the rpm would be added in the wiki, it SHOULD contain > >> something along the following lines: > >> In order to use this driver <link to driver here>, you will need > >> the dkms package available from rpmforge. Please add this repository to > >> your list of local repositories (as described in > >> http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories) and run the following commands: > >> yum install dkms --enablerepo rpmforge > >> rpm -Uvh <link to dkms-r8168.noarch.rpm> [*] > >> Maybe also add some words about the benefit of dkms over lkmdl... > > > > Yes, brief instructions will be helpful. By the way, that "someone" > > was in the CentOS forum and he apparently decided to buy a new card > > that works out of the box (upon other's suggestion). I felt it was > > appropriate advice given his "newbie" status. > > > Oops - sorry, I guess that was me :D > > I tried to word it as an alternative suggestion, giving him options, > rather than deliberately steering him in that direction. Like you say > Akemi, he didn't appear to have the knowledge to follow the current Wiki > guide and I could see him getting frustrated by a perceived lack of > progress (having a working Internet connection seems to be a critical > requirement to most new users). That was indeed a good suggestion. This person used an old nic and got connected successfully. Well, now that he can access the network, he is a good candidate for us to ask if he could try installing the driver by following the instructions (I wrongly posted in other thread). So I did: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id=12467&forum=40 Hope he can make it :-D Akemi