Hi there, I have to admit that i'm very new in linux and after installing my redhat 6.0 there was no internet connection so read some threads that guided me to try and detect my network card which detected nothing. I then went agead to download ethernet realtek ethernet gigabyte card driver for my version of linux. I untar the file and i got the directory r8168-x.x.xxx.xx, a README file so i read the README file and it asked me to run ./autorun.sh which i did but i got the following error:

Check old driver and unload it.
Build the module and install
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2
make: *** [modules] Error 2


kindly guide me through i dont know how to proceed from there!

First of all, are you completely sure that the device has not been detected? Can you run the following commands (as root)

lspci | grep -i eth (this will give us info about the hardware)
lsmod (this will show the kernel modules that are currently loaded)
ifconfig -a (which will show all network interfaces)

and post the output here, please?

If it turns out that you do indeed need to install the driver manually, the error suggests that you need to install the kernel source package for your distribution (the build directory is usually a symbolic link to the kernel source directory). I'm not that familiar with Red Hat's package management system, so someone else will be able to help you with this.

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