on wifi and/or NIC drivers

[sachin]

Hi 

I feel is download the driver for the lan cards and compile it manually
because you never know which rpms and dependencies might cause you
problem... So why don't download and compile... 


Regards 

Sachin 


On Sun, 2011-02-20 at 10:30 -0800, Victor Radu wrote:
> We installed RHEL5_x64 on one of our machines and
> the 2 network interface drivers : Realtek RTL-8185 and Atheros RTL8185 were
> not found.
> I could not find linux  64bit drivers for these 2 interfaces on the web
> On the other hand I loaded Fefora14_x64 and both interfaces were found and
> drivers loaded well.
> I do need to use RHEL5 for other applications that will not run on Fedora.
> My question is
> How can you identify the yum package or rpms from the DVD distribution (
> from Fedora14 in this case) for each of the 2 network  interfaces.
> 
> Thank you all
>  Victor