Building Realtek 8168B driver
 

Downloaded bz2 file from Realtek
http://www.realtek.com/downloads/dow...&GetDown=false

and I was trying to build a driver for Debian Squeeze AMD64. Extracted the file out and done cd into that directory. Noticed I don't have a configure file so I done dh_make but I do not have a ko file to insert as a module. Have I missed a step?

I have build-essential, dh-make and linux-source installed to help build the package. Using kernel 2.6.32-5 AMD64.

Is there documentation included in the archive? It's difficult to say if the behavior you are seeing is expected or not, as we don't have anything to go on.

Assume r8168-8.024.00.tar.bz2.

cd r8168-8.024.00/ ; su ; make
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install -m 744 -c r8168.ko /lib/modules/2.6.3x.x/kernel/drivers/net/
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/knudfl/x_pack/r8168-8.024.00/src'

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When I cd into the directory and do su and run make, I get the following error:

root@test3:/home/earth/Downloads/r8168-8.024.00# make
make -C src/ clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/earth/Downloads/r8168-8.024.00/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 `/home/earth/Downloads/r8168-8.024.00/src'
make -C src/ modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/earth/Downloads/r8168-8.024.00/src'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/build SUBDIRS=/home/earth/Downloads/r8168-8.024.00/src modules
make[2]: Entering directory `/lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/build'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `modules'. Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/build'
make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/earth/Downloads/r8168-8.024.00/src'
make: *** [modules] Error 2
root@test3:/home/earth/Downloads/r8168-8.024.00#


Did you edit a file?

Debian Squeeze, amd64 : No linux-source required. Installed is linux-headers-2.6.32-5-amd64.
Suggest : remove 'linux-source*' and install 'linux-headers-2.6.32-5-amd64'.

Why do you want to use the code from Realtek? Does the r8169.ko kernel module not work?

@Andrew Benton post 6 :

You are right, it's already there :

ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/r8169.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 57264 1 jun 2010 /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/r8169.ko

( 01 Jun 2010 : Was installed / created a year ago.)

The r8169.ko file is there but it does not work for some reason.

knudfl...I did as you said and I have the r8168.ko file created in the /usr/src/r8168-8.024.00/src directory. Do I have to do anything else or do I just switch to the /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/kernel/drivers/net directory and do a insmod to insert driver?


Everyone has been very helpful.

Also....how did you know that I needed to remove the linux-source and install the headers from that error message?

The package 'linux-source-2.6.32' only has an exact match with the
running kernel when it has been patched to be a "linux-source-2.6.32-5",
(linux-patch-debian-2.6.32 (2.6.32-35)) I guess. Alone it doesn't match.
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/l...-debian-2.6.32


I'd guess it can be created also with a command like
'apt-get -b source linux-headers-2.6.32-5-amd64=2.6.32-35'
Or : 'apt-get -b source linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64=2.6.32-35'
which will also create some of the many other "kernel packages" :
http://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/linux-2.6

..

Use modprobe. From any location. No 'cd'.

# modprobe r8168

This old thread helped get my 6.0.7 install working with a bare desktop with onboard RTL8111F. With one small change:

The Realtek /src/Makefile (not the root Makefile) was pointing to the wrong directory for the amd64 headers, at least on my workstation. The following change fixed things. This is a diff.

Maybe this can help somebody stuck in the same boat I was.

yeah.maybe something wrong with the sourace tarbal you download from offical page.I have come accross this when I compiling my RT5370,you can refer to below link

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...70-4175443351/