Hi;
I have a HP dv600 laptop that has a Realtek RTL8111/8168B network card.

Kernel 2.6.18-53.el5PAE trying to install the driver from file r8168-8.019.00.

When I run the ./autorun.sh file I keep getting the following

Check old driver and unload it.
Build the module and install
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `modules'. Stop.
make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2
make: *** [modules] Error 2

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Tue Nov 2 00:08:37 EST 2010
make -C src/ clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/m1/r8168/r8168-8.019.00/src'
rm -rf *.o *.ko *~ core* .dep* .*.d .*.cmd *.mod.c *.a *.s .*.flags .tmp_versions Module.symvers Modules.symvers Module.markers *.order
make[1]: Leaving directory `/m1/r8168/r8168-8.019.00/src'
make -C src/ modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/m1/r8168/r8168-8.019.00/src'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.el5PAE/build SUBDIRS=/m1/r8168/r8168-8.019.00/src modules
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.el5-PAE-i686'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.el5-PAE-i686'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/m1/r8168/r8168-8.019.00/src'


How do I get rid of these errors?

Cheers

I am assuming you have Redhat / CentOS.

In our systems having RTL8111c ethernet card (on-board), we see kernel version 2.6.18-164.el5 (RHEL 5.4) having r8169 module that supports the card.

Will you be able to try installing a recent kernel? We haven't tried compiling the module ourselves, so I don't know about the errors.

1. can you make sure whether u have installed linux source properly in /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.el5-PAE-i686.
Navigate inside the source directory (usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.el5-PAE-i686) and check.
2. if it is properly installed, compile it. if it is not properly installed, download latest version or 2.6.18 kernel and compile it with ur required module is enabled. (make menuconfig,make , make install)

3. after installing new kernel , edit /boot/grub/grub.conf file , to boot from newly installed kernel.

Hi Guys;

I took the easy way our upgraded to RHEL 5.5 and installed the driver again and hey presto it works. I guess I will never know what the issue ended up being. Cheers