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

[Greg Frith]

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


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