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. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >>