NIC installation assitance

[fbatskor]

Hello all,

I am newbie so please bear with me and my questions. The PC has a Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E network card. I have down loaded from Realtek the following zipped file r8168-8.006.00.tar.bz2, I have expanded that file and now have a folder called r8168-8.006.00

This folder has 3 files and one sub folder the files are

Makefile
readme
release_note.txt

The sub folder is src with the following files

Makefile
Makefile_linux24x
r8168.h
r8168_n.c
rtl_ioctl.c
rtl_ioctl.h

From what I read I have to create a file called r8168.ko. I think that the Makefile at the root of the folders should be used to create the r8168.ko file.

all: clean modules install
modules: $(MAKE) -C src/ modules
clean:$(MAKE) -C src/ clean
install: $(MAKE) -C src/ install

But I cannot make heads or tails from this, help.

SUSE Desktop 10

[oz]

Welcome to the forums!

I don't have that card so can't help much with it, but check the readme file because they often put step by step instructions for installing in there.

[gogalthorp]

You will need to install gcc complier to compile the files.

This should be on the installation media. Just go to Yast and search for gcc

You only need the gcc file there are lots of add on for other languages.

[Segfault]

Just wondering. In every mainstream distro one can use package manager to install common drivers like this one. Not in SuSE?

[gogalthorp]

If you can find it in an RPM package, you can.

It is a matter of packaging propitiatory software and my have legal implications.