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

[Jim Kinney]

In Fedora-land, there is no longer an i386 build. It starts at i686 now. It
is _called_ i386 but the build arch is i686.

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Greg Clifton <gccfof5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>> 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
>>
>>
>> --
>> Marc Ferguson
>>
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