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

[Lightner, Jeff]

i686 is NOT itanium  - it is later Pentium (Xeon) chips but is still 32
bit.   i386 is the earlier 32 bit chips.   It isn't unusual on some
systems to see both i386 and i686 packages (and if it is a 64 bit
non-Itanium you can have those AND x86_64).   ia64 = Itanium

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
Kinney
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 10:01 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] Trying to Install a Realtek NIC Driver on Fedora 13

 

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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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-lin
ux.html



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