Re: Netgear GA311 (RealTek 8169 chipset) PCI network card and fc5

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:32:04 +0100
Greg Frith <gfrith@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


On 28 Sep 2006, at 18:25, Rick Stevens wrote:

On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 16:49 +0100, Greg Frith wrote:
Hi,


I'm setting up a reasonably old PC with FC5 to use primarily as a
test
server for web development. A few days ago i installed FC5 and
spent 2 days trying to configure a wireless network card. Having
finally compiled the kernel with the additional drivers for the
wireless card i got it up and running and everything was fine.
The box was hidden away in a corner (where my partner couldn't see
it) and all was good. This morning however the hard disk went in
the machine, so i had to purchase a new disk and start all over
again.


So my present situation: Not wanting to go through the pane of
setting up a wireless card again, i thought I'd save myself a great
deal of hassle and put a standard wired ethernet card in. So i
did, a
Netgear GA311 which i believe uses the Realtek 8169 chip set. I'd
already checked online and everyone reported this card as working
hassle free under fedora. But not for me. On boot I see the
message:


r8169 device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying
initialisation


I get the same message if i do ifup eth0. ifconfig -a does not
list eth0.


Using the GUI tool Network Manager the device can be seen under
hardware.


So the network card not working is the first problem, any thoughts
gratefully received.


In order to try and fix this i have downloaded linux drivers from
the Realtek site. To install i need the kernel source, so i also
downloaded kernel-devel-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.i686.rpm. When i try to
install this rpm i get:


-> rpm -Uvh kernel-devel-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.i686.rpm
error: cannot create %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES.

You must be root to do the "rpm -Uvh" (I'd recommend "rpm -ivh").
Also
note that the "kernel-devel" RPM is NOT the kernel source RPM. It
is only the kernel headers..and is usually enough to build most 3rd
party drivers.

Thank Rick,

My apologies, I have installed the kernel-devel package, i get the
error when trying to install kernel-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.src.rpm. I am
also doing this as root. So,

[root@wharfe]: rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.src.rpm
error: cannot create %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES.





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- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer
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Ran into a problem setting up an ether net bridge in an old computer.
My guess in the end is the problem was actually a problem associated
with the mother board chipset or bios rather than any of the cards I
was using or the method. I might have been able to beat the problem by
going into the kernel but decided it was simpler to just not do it. My
main point is your challenge may be more an issue related to the age of
the computer rather than the kernel/bios or the cards being used. If
you can try to find a "less old" computer to run things on
Norm

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