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

[Greg Clifton]

Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the i686 the Itanic (I mean Itanium)
CPU? Shouldn't you be using an i386 build?

GC

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Marc Ferguson <marcferguson at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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>> All the best,
>> 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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