| 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. |
