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

[Marc Ferguson]

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:

> On 07/07/2010 11:02 PM, Marc Ferguson wrote:
> > I have an odd question. Since you guys were able to build the file
> > without any issues can you simply attach it to this thread?
>
> No, I don't think ALE is attachment-friendly, but I'm okay with taking
> this off-list and helping you out.
>
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> Brian Pitts
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Thanks for the file Brian. I tried to work on getting my NIC installed, but
I was unsuccessful. Neat thing is I end up learning new things. I booted
Fedora13 i686 using a USB key and copied that .ko file onto the desktop. I
then moved it into the "modules" folder (something along the lines of
/lib/modules/kernel_version/net, it's not written in stone). Based on the
instructions from this blog post [1], I tried, but was thoroughly confused
by the end of the night. :)

I noticed that there isn't a /etc/modules.conf file. So; I created one. I'm
wondering if I should go ahead and install Fedora 13 i686 and go from there.
I'm concerned about NOT having internet access during installation - if that
affects the final build of the machine?  I noticed that none of the changes
I do stick (after reboot), so maybe I'm wasting my time by trying to get the
NIC to work on Live?

Well; I ended up moving the r8168.ko file into a "realtek" folder under
/lib/modules/kernel_version/net, but I couldn't successfully modprobe it. I
did learn that my NIC device wasn't loaded. When I did a ifconfig only "lo"
was shown. So; now I need to figure out how to load my NIC device manually!

Amazing. I think if I buy a new motherboard (or get a PCI LAN), I can bypass
this pain... ah I mean learning. I would kill for an RPM right now!

[1] --
http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2005/01/how-to-install-network-card-in-linux.html

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Marc Ferguson

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