[realtek] Problems installing the latest driver.

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Hello,

I have been using Linux for a while now but I am new to compiling and
installing modules. I have a Vulcano Ethernet card which is based on the
RTL8139 version C chip. I'm running Redhat version 7 and the RTL8139.o
driver v 1.11.

I read somewhere that v 1.11 has a nasty bug, so I've been trying to install
v 1.12 but I can't get rtl8139.c to compile into an out file! I keep getting
parse errors and hundreds of warnings (yes, I'm using the command line at
the bottom of the rtl8139.c). I've read the guide at the web sites
"http://www.scyld.com/expert/modules.html" and
"http://www.scyld.com/network/updates.html" and followed them step by step,
but I always get stuck on the compilation step "gcc..." or "kgcc..." in my
case.

I'm also getting the following error before the system hangs:

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
current->tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3 = 00101000
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0002
CPU:    0
EIP:    0010:[<c01afbfa>]
EFLAGS: 00010093
eax: 00000000   ebx: c1768c80   ecx: 00000084   edx: 20000384
esi: c1736000   edi: c022c7f4   ebp: c0235dcc   esp: c0235dac
ds: 0018   es: c0018   ss: 0018
Process swapper (pid: 0, process nr: 0, stackpage=c0235000)
Stack: 00000004 c0235e24 00000084 84235de8 00000000 c0268c70 00000000
00000000
       00000061 c010afd6 00000004 00000000 c0235e24 00000004 c0246080
c11f4260
       c0235e1c c010ad9b 00000004 c0235e24 c11f4260 c13680e0 c0ee13e4
c175ff0a
Call Trace: [<c010afd6>] [<c010ad9b>] [<c010b0f8>] [<c010addc>] [<c202353d>]
[<c
2022ee4>] [<c204be40>]
       [<c010b0f8>] [<c010afd6>] [<c010ad9b>] [<c010b0f8>] [<c010addc>]
[<c01087
e1>] [<c0106000>] [<c0108804>]
       [<c0109f58>] [<c0106000>] [<c010607b>] [<c0106000>] [<c0100175>]
Code: 88 08 ff 47 14 8b 86 50 01 00 00 c6 00 00 8b 55 00 89 54 24
Aiee, killing interrupt handler
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
In swapper task - not syncing

Does this have to do with v1.11 of the driver. If anyone knows what may be
causing this any help would be much appreciated. Thank you for your time.

Peter Szmrecsanyi.