[Ambassadors] Issue about the Realtek 8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernetcard

[Bart De Soete]

Hi,

Since a few days all my pc's are running now on FC 6.
However, my most recent laptop (an Acer Aspire 9412) contains a Realtek
8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernetcard.
This networkcard was not supported in FC 5 and still isn't in FC 6!

I did some research on the web and contacted a few people who are having the
same problem.
Realtek's website provides user with a so called: "linux-driver" in
tgz-format, but every user that I contacted received the same errors I
received when compiling the driver.
On an Italian website, I found an rpm of it, called:
dkms-r1000-1.04-1.src.rpm.
However, when trying to install the rpm-package I get the error: "cannot
installe source packages". (???)

Can someone give me advice or something?
It's a little bit frustrating, 'cause I was planning my next presentation
about Fedora on this laptop. And ofcourse: a laptop with FC 6 with no
internetconnection is not done.

Kind regards,

-- 
Bart De Soete,
Fedora Ambassador

Belgium

Bart.De.Soete(a)fedoraproject.org