Compiling Realtek 8169 drivers on Lucid Lynx (Ubuntu 10.04)

It’s been a long time since I compiled kernel modules … and now that Ubuntu moved to some fancy Git based system for kernel source, I had no idea how to get headers and build essentials. Well, here is the command:

sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`

Once you’ve run that, the instructions in the Realtek README file will actually work!

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Published:
18.09.10 / 10pm
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