[CentOS] 5.2 driver for Marvell Yukon 88E8042 PCI-E Fast Ethernet controller

Akemi Yagi amyagi at gmail.com
Wed Dec 10 12:29:35 UTC 2008


On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Vnpenguin <vnpenguin at vnoss.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 7:05 AM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> If the 88E8042 shares the same driver as 88E8056, check out this forum thread:
>>
>> http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id=12895&forum=40
>>
>> Scroll down to note #5 and get the kABI tracking kmod-sk98lin package.
>>  There will be no need to rebuild the driver for each kernel update.
>
> Yes, the driver sk98lin works fine for me, under 5.2

Thank you for the note.  Then, the OP can go directly to:

http://centos.toracat.org/ajb/sk98lin/

and install the driver from there (thanks to Alan for building them).
These kmods are not kernel version specific, so will survive kernel
updates.

Akemi / toracat



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