[ale] Trying to Install a Realtek NIC Driver on Fedora 13

[Jim Kinney]

Since the code should be building a kernel module, be sure you have
installed the kernel-devel package for Fedora. That way you have the correct
build environment for your running kernel.

I grabbed the code and the autorun.sh looks pretty straight forward. As root
just run ./autorun.sh in the dir it untarred into. It will "do the right
thing" if you have your system setup correctly otherwise (i.e. kernel-devel
and gcc install. yum install gcc kernel-devel are your friends here).

If you are doing this on a different machine because the network won't work,
use yumdownloader kernel-devel gcc and sneakernet the rpms over (assuming
the alt box is also F13).

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Marc Ferguson <marcferguson at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I've posted sporadically, but if anyone is following I can't get Fedora 13
> x86_64 Live to work properly with my video card. Luckily; i686 works. So;
> now I'm working on getting my NIC recognized so I can finally install it and
> move on!
>
> I downloaded the drivers for a Realtek RTL8111B on-board NIC. Someone
> actually started a Google Code for it. [1] I went through the readme file
> and it simply stated to run "./autorun.sh" as root. So; I did that and I got
> some errors. I worked through them, but still ran into some errors and at
> the end of it it never created the *.ko file that I need. I posted on their
> Google Code page for some help [2], so I'm hoping someone will answer. The
> project looks very new.
>
> And that's where you fine folks come into play. The details of my issue is
> on their site, but I don't think I understand how the Makefiles and
> autorun.sh files play together. There seems to be a Makefile in the root
> directory and another one in the "src" directory. The one in root is being
> executed (I think), but it's not creating the 3 simple directories it's
> supposed to create. The error I'm getting makes me believe that the second
> Makefile isn't be executed at all. Can someone shed some light on this
> issue? Thanks.
>
> [1] http://code.google.com/p/r8168/
> <http://code.google.com/p/r8168/>[2]
> http://code.google.com/p/r8168/issues/detail?id=1
>
> --
> Marc Ferguson
>
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