Installing Realtek Ethernet Card on Fedora 9

[Sam Varshavchik]

morethanme writes:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to install the card using the files and instruction from the vendor's website as Fedora couldn't get the card working after the installation.
> 
> When using the "make clean modules" command, I get this:
> 
> [root@ localhost r8168-8.008.00]# make clean modules
> make -C src/ clean
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/Aiman/Download/r8168-8.008.00/src'
> rm -rf *.o *.ko *~ core* .dep* .*.d .*.cmd *.mod.c *.a *.s .*.flags .tmp_versions Module.symvers Modules.symvers *.order
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/Aiman/Download/r8168-8.008.00/src'
> make -C src/ modules
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/Aiman/Download/r8168-8.008.00/src'
> make -C /lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.i686/build SUBDIRS=/home/Aiman/Download/r8168-8.008.00/src modules
> make: Entering an unknown directory
> make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.i686/build: No such file or directory.  Stop.
> make: Leaving an unknown directory
> make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/Aiman/Download/r8168-8.008.00/src'
> make: *** [modules] Error 2
> [root@ localhost r8168-8.008.00]# 
> And eventually can't continue the installation.
> As I read through, I used yum to update the kernel-devel package, but with no luck.

You must have the wrong version of kernel-devel installed. You're running an 
older kernel, but you probably updated to the most recent kernel-devel 
package. You must install a matching version of kernel-devel for your 
running kernel.


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