Thread: Problem installing drivers on CentOS 6.3

I recently installed centOS 6.3 on my laptop and the network card is not working. So I went to Realtek website and downloaded the appropriate driver for my network card (r8111/8168b).

I burned the file to a cd and then copied it to the /tmp directory and used the command tar xvjf filename.tar.bz2

After I CD to the new directory and use the command MAKE it get this error

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make -C src/ clean
make[1]: Entering directory '/tmp/r8168-8.032.00/src'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.32-279.el6.x_86_64/build SUBDIRS=tm/r8168-8.032.00/src clean
make: Entering an unknown directory
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.32-279.el6.x_86_64/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: Leaving unknown directory
make[1]: *** [clean] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/r8168-8.032.00/src'
make: *** [clean] Error 2

Im a linux noob and just started to learn it. Please let me know if I am doing anything wrong. Thanks for your help.

Weird, I must have installed it wrong but the GUI isn't installed. The method of installation I used was the first disc of DVDLive .iso which was 4.6gigs.

The command:

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make -C src/ clean

tells it to clean the src tree for the program you are about to compile. Because it has never been compiled, those directories it is trying to clean do not exist or are empty.

Insofar as actually compiling the drivers, you may need a few other packages installed such as kernel-devel. Try running:

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sudo yum install kernel-devel

This will install the kernel headers so that the driver module can compile properly against them.

Then run:

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sudo make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe r8168

The first should build the drivers as the root user. The second should install them into the module directory. The third will cause the OS to use the newly installed module to detect the card.