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

[Greg Frith]

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.

Any thoughts?

Many thanks, Greg.


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