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

[Greg Frith]

On 28 Sep 2006, at 18:53, Norm wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:32:04 +0100
> Greg Frith <gfrith at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 28 Sep 2006, at 18:25, Rick Stevens wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 16:49 +0100, Greg Frith wrote:
>>>> [snip]
>>>
>>> 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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>>> -
>>
>>
> 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
>
Thanks for your comments Norm.  Unfortunately (for me) i think there  
may be a lot of sense in what you say.  I did however get the  
wireless cad working in the end, after compiling ndiswrapper and then  
using this to load a Win32 driver.  There was i thinking that any old  
box would be able to cope with an ethernet card.  BTW, the card is  
identified correctly in an 'lspci', and modprobe gives no errors when  
loading the r8169 driver.

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