Problems while installing and compiling a driver for Realtek 8168

Jay Cliburn jacliburn at bellsouth.net
Sat Sep 30 17:26:51 UTC 2006


Bart De Soete wrote:
> Hi,
> My laptop got a Realtek 8168-networkcard.
> Fedora 5 doesn't recognize it automatically, but Realtek makes it possible
> on their website to download een Linux driver for the networkcard.
> It's a tarball that I had to unzip and compile as superusern but there are
> erros during the compilationprogress.
> Can somebody help me, please? Thanks!

If you haven't already done so, go ahead and install the kernel-devel package.

yum install kernel-devel

Then retry your build.




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