Anthony Lordi wrote: > Jerry. There is no hurry. I'm trying different things and learning. I > downloaded two files from different places and got > 'rtl8180-0.21tar.gz' and got 'rtl8180-0.21.tar.tar'. I #gunzup > rtl8180 -0.21.tar.gz and got 'rtl8180-0.21tar ' on the flash drive. > That is where things went to error messages. I tried to #'make' the > file to change the kernel, tried #makfile, #insmod,#modprobe, and > seemed to keep getting the can't find file error. I concluded it has > something to do with "tar". Can you give some generic help as to the > tar.tar and tar.gz. Now, how do I get it into the kernel? Tony >
Before helping with the above, more information is needed to avoid some other problems. Step one is find out which Kernel you are running and version of gcc. Open a terminal and type /uname -a/ You should see something like this: Linux xxxxx.yyyy 2.6.9-22.0.2.EL #1 Tue Jan 17 06:51:40 CST 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux Next type /gcc -v/ We will need to know the last line for this command. The last line should look like this: gcc version 3.4.4 20050721 (Red Hat 3.4.4-2) Also see if the driver will load with this command: /insmod -f rtl8180_24x.o /(You should be root to load the driver.)/ /The Realtek readme states the driver module was compiled into Linux by default starting with kernel 2.4.18. Paste the results of each of these commands into your reply. This will guide us to the next step. Tony, I am moving this discussion back to the CWE-LUG list. List members may have a better solution. I think Scott knows of a program to turn a tarball into an RPM. -- Jerry Hubbard [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
