Robert,

 Thanks, I'll check it out. I'm working on some testing today and I
depending on how far I get with that I'll check out the ethernet solution
you've suggested. Right now I've worked around it.

Bill Putney - KPTZ Port Townsend, WA

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Robert Jeffares <jeffares.rob...@gmail.com
> wrote:

> By the way, can you think of a reason why Broadcast Appliance doesn't
> support an Ethernet NIC that Centos 5.5 LiveCD does?
>
> The OS that is on the appliance CD does not have drivers for some on board
> NIC.
>
> This is no fault of Rivendell
>
> after  lot of ferreting this is the solution thanks to ELRepo.org
>
> console
> su
>
> /sbin/lspci
>
> To select the correct driver package for your hardware, please follow
> the example below (shown for an Ethernet controller):
> [user@elrepo]$ /sbin/lspci | grep -i net
> 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
> RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)
>
> [user@elrepo]$ /sbin/lspci -n | grep '04:00.0'
> 04:00.0 0200: 10ec:8168 (rev 01)
> Searching for the Vendor:Device ID pairing of 10ec:8168 on the
> DeviceIDs page will show that kmod-r8168 should work with this
> Ethernet controller.
> http://elrepo.org/tiki/DeviceIDs
> Then you go to
>
> http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el5/x86_64/RPMS/
>
> to get the rpm
>
> rpm -Uvh
>
> you my need to install
>
> http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el5/x86_64/RPMS/module-init-tools-3.3-0.pre3.1.60.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
>
> in order to be able to install the driver rpm
>
> My system found the card and had it configured the moment it was installed.
>
>
> I have done this a couple of times now.
>
> Robert Jeffares
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