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GravityGripp

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Registered: 2008-12-03

Posts: 14

offline kernel update [solved]

I have a ASUS P5Q motherboard which uses the atl1e module for the ethernet card. The default ArchLinux kernel (2.6.25) does not have this module available. My understanding is that the latest arch kernel 2.6.27 does have this module available. My question is how can I update the kernel without an active ethernet connection?

I'm thinking I can just download the update and put it on a thumbdrive and then just do pacman -U new kernel but I wanted to make sure I could do it that way and I'm not sure where to download the update.

Thanks for any help.

Last edited by GravityGripp (2008-12-03 05:18:45)

GravityGripp

Member

Registered: 2008-12-03

Posts: 14

Re: offline kernel update [solved]

Well, I seem to have solved this one myself. What I thought would work did. I just downloaded the new kernel package from a mirror and then used a thumbdrive to update the kernel with pacman -U.