Topic: Gigabit Ethernet RTL8196

[trampas]

I need some help. I have gotten a couple of a realtek 8196 gigabit ethernet cards I would like to install on my 5.6 system.

I downloaded the drivers, which are the source files from:
http://www.xterasys.com/drivers.htm (see product XN-152)

I then installed the development rpms from:
http://wiki.contribs.org/index.php?module=article&view=10&MMN_position=33:33

I then tried to build the driver and got a bunch of errors where it could not find the needed include files.

Has someone else used this card before and/or could someone email me the compiled drivers for this card?

Thanks
Trampas

[trampas]

Opps I meant RealTek 8169

Trampas

[Lloyd Keen]

I compiled mine for SMP but I'm sure they'll work for a uniprocessor setup. http://www.comnetel.com/r8169.o

[trampas]

Thats Lloyd I will install it and see what happens...

Trampas

[Charlie Brady]

trampas wrote:
 
> Opps I meant RealTek 8169

Supported in 6.0beta3.  

Charlie

[Charlie Brady]

Lloyd Keen wrote:

> I compiled mine for SMP but I'm sure they'll work for a
> uniprocessor setup. http://www.comnetel.com/r8169.o

Chances are they won't. They'll certainly refuse to load unless you force them to load.

Charlie

[trampas]

Charlie,

If I upgrade my 5.6 to 6.0beta3 would I have to go back and change all my templates again?

Thanks
Trampas

[Lloyd Keen]

Just curious, did you edit the Makefile as per the instructions prior to compiling? You have to change the line regarding "kernel version=2.4.whatever"

[trampas]

I did edit the make file. The main problem I had was I download the development tools for 5.6, which was for kernel 2.4 while the version I have, which I thought was 5.6, appears to have kernel 2.2.19

I ended up hosing my whole server, while trying to compile the driver, stupided on my part, I typed rm *.* -r -f where I should not have. So I restored from back up and tried your driver today. I followed the instructions on installing the driver from:

http://www.e-smith.org/docs/howto/contrib/net_card.html

What I was trying to do is install as a third network card for a dedicated connection to my workstation.

All went well, however I got a dependency error when I rebooted the server. Therefore I again restored from back up. I will try to install the devlopment tools again and see if I can build the driver locally.

If I can't then I will just have to wait for 6.0 if it ever gets out of beta.

People wonder why linux is not main stream, I have an electrical and computer engineering degree and do embedded firmware full time and I have trouble getting a simple network card working.

Trampas

[Reinhold]

trampas,

Just switch to 6.03 and them 8169cards work out of the box
(like charlie said .-)
... at least they do here

... and as to your other remark:
"Do you really think W*N95 would support Gigabit cards either ."

Reinhold