[CentOS] Request advise regarding Driver for Intel Motherboard

[Sanjay Arora]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Akemi Yagi<amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Sanjay Arora<sanjay.k.arora at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Akemi Yagi<amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> [root at localhost] lspci -n | grep "Ethernet"
>>
>> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
>> RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03)
>>
>> [root at localhost] lspci -n | grep "03:00.0"
>>
>> 03:00.0 0200: 10ec:8168 (rev 03)
>>
>> And yes, the kmod-r8169-xen was installed somehow and has been
>> uninstalled cleanly. I was uninstalling kmod-r8169 instead of
>> kmod-r8169-xen. Sorry for not being more careful.
>>
>> rpm -qa reports my installed kernel as kernel-xen-2.6.18-8.el5
>>
>> kmod-r8168-xen still wont install due to kernel module dependencies.
>> So what next.
>
> The xen kernels may need special attention because they have some kABI
> tracking-related issues.  I see you are subscribed to the ELRepo
> mailing list. Can we take this thread there?  This is because the
> subject is now about the elrepo packages and not all ELRepo admins are
> reading this CentOS mailing list.
>
> By the way, if you are planning to install Windows XP as a guest (as
> you indicated in the original post), I would suggest VirtualBox or
> VMware.
>

Further discussion continues here at
http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/2009-September/000042.html

just for those who may face the same problem later and research it in archives.

Sanjay.