Network card module installation

Linux and Unix-Like Linux
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Hi,

   I am  using  Red Hat 9.0 and it does not  have  the  inbuilt  driver  module for my  onboard lan card \(RTL 8169\). I  downloaded the module \(file - r8169-6.017.00.tar.bz2 and  even r8169-6.015.00.tar.bz2\), but  when  try to  install it  it says  r8169.h , r8169_n.c , Makefile  etc are not  ELF  formats.

After downlaoding , I did

Make clean modules - Multiple errors
Make install - multiple errors
depmod -a etc. - Files are not valid ELF format

I have checked lspci and my card is shown there with No driver installed.

Module (after extracting ) contains Makefile, Makefile_2.4.x , r8169.h, r8169_n.c, readme. I tried to build the source with its Makefile which also gives multiple errors saying that the parameters in Makefile not found.

Help me out of this !!!

Thanks,

Dexter

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It would help you immensely to not be on a distribution that is almost 10 years old. Many of the things you will find now will not work well.

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Hi mark54g,

Thanks for replying. Was wondering why nobody replied.

Dexter