I have the correct driver and maybe I wasn’t clear enough in my last post but I need to know how to install r8168-8.032.00. Which I think is the correct driver for my nic card Suse loads r8169 which is not the correct driver so if someone could tell me how to install r8168 I would be a happy camper. Thanks
Chris
I went and downloaded the driver version you have specified. It appears that you uncompress the archive, open up a terminal session, change to the root folder of the archive where the file autorun.sh is located and execute the file as root (like sudo ./autorun.sh). Your driver file will be compiled from source, any existing driver with the same name will be uninstalled and the new driver installed. It then says you must use ifup to enable the new driver though I think you can use YaST making sure to specify the correct driver name. Every time you update your kernel, you must recompile and reinstall this driver again, even for kernel security updates. Everything I am telling you was included in the source file you downloaded.
You will need the basic compile and kernel stuff loaded in order to compile your own driver.
Open YaST / Software / Software Management - Select the View Button on the top left and pick Patterns. Now, you will see several Patterns listed and you want to select:
Development
[X] Base Development
[X] Linux Kernel Development
[X] C/C++ Development
Then Press the Accept button on the bottom right and allow these applications to install. If Realtek were to supply this code to the kernel, you would not need to go through such nonsense I would guess.
Thank You,
While tthe answer of James from Texas is fair enough and most probably is valid for several versions of openSUSE, you can not expect from readers opening your thread that they are going to search for for you call “my last post” or any of your other posts and/or threads to try to find out what version of openSUSE you have. Please mention what you have!