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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