Installation of Dell network driver from dell-hardware-auto-repository on CentOS 5

[Rainer Traut]

Hi,

Eugene Pik schrieb:
> HI Narendra,
> Then I guess YUM had to find and report that? Otherwise there is no 
> sense in having that driver in dell-hardware-auto repository. The 
> purpose of yum repository is to make admin's life easier, not harder...

Exactly.
I already told dell support about this problem two months ago when EL 
5.2 was released. Nothing happened.

And I reported another problem;
The way DKMS works you will not get your modules build automatically 
once you install an update kernel.
DKMS just symlinks modules build for the former kernel in the 
'/lib/modules/[new kernel]/weak-updates' directory.

Problem is, EL5 unlike EL4 does not use this directory anymore if it 
already finds another/older module in the directories.
These modules take precedence over "weak-updates".

Rainer