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REALTEK 8201BL NIC


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OK, I just bought a new miniPC thing.

I was getting tired of you guys having these supermachines....

Anyway ..

Its a 'cute' little shuttle with the NVIDIA -AMD chipset.

The probem is: I can't get the NIC working.

Its only got a single PCI slot (cos its tiny) and I need to get thisd working.

Ahhh.

As I understand the NIC is divided between the ethernet part which is driverless and the MAC part which needs a driver.

The module it want is nvnet.o

 

The downloadable RPM is compiled for 9.0 and hence older Kernel than 9.1.

Also I'm using kernel-enterprise becuase I have 1GB RAM.

 

So I tried the source rpm.

Unfortunately this (and the tarball source) both give me messages about the use of kernel headers. Basically they want the kernel headers from the /lib/modules/'uname -r'/ path.

 

 

ANY QUICK HINT:

Options seem to be.

Fix the Makefiles

downgrade kernel (not preferred)

stick in another NIC (a lot of trouble, the FULL size 3c5905 I have spare is too big. I need to rip apart my SME server to pull out one of the smaller NIC's and then reconfigure it.

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