During an attempt to "make install" an e1000 driver on R5D1, I get this error. Makefile:65: *** Linux kernel source not found. Stop. Should the source be there? I can't find it today, but I thought I read that the knoppmyth source wasn't available. I do have some issues during the end of the install, errors fly by during the convert to debian, audio something and lilo doesn't get installed. I have to do a manual install and mark the partition bootable. The autoinstall says its sucessful, but obviously it's not. Could that be the issue why the source isn't there?

You need to unpack it. As root, go to /usr/src, find the kernel source tar ball (I've forgotten the name) and use tar to unpack it. If the name of the archive file ends with ".gz" use "tar zxvf CorrectFileNameHere.gz", if it ends with ".bz2" use "tar jxvf CorrectFileNameHere.bz2".

Ah, that allowed the make to work!! I've done the modprobe and tried rebooting. Still can't see that 82566 intel e1000 card. lsmod doesn't show it, even after another modprobe. I verified the card is enabled in the cmos. I even went out and edited the modules.conf and added it as eth0. But everytime I try netcardconfig it tries an interface called sit0. Any ideas?

When you run netcard config it should show you sit0 and eth0 as options for configuration. The first (sitX) is IPv6, the second (ethX) is IPv4. Are you really only seeing one?

Actually when I do netcardconfig there are neither eth0 or sit0 on the first dialog box where you say to do a DHCP broadcase. But when you click ok, sit0 comes up on the command line and then after a bit fails. I am amazed how much time I have spent on this... learning alot. I do the modprobe and there are no errors, it actually does an insmod or something similar without error. But lsmod shows no network drivers. dmesg show e100 drivers, and e1000 drivers copyright messages, but no errors. I was wondering if the e100 drivers were messing thing up, but they aren't loading either. And I can't figure out how to disable them either. The e1000 driver readme, said they only supported modules, no static additions to the kernel, so that sounded correct. After "make install" on the driver source, do I need to do something with the kernel? All I can find is modprob & netcardconfig. I have been poking around in lilo to see if I can add something to the boot append section. haven't figured out anything yet.

**** I've given up... popped in an e100 card and I get both an eth0 and sit0. I have read that it will take kernel 2.6.18 to make the intel 965 chipset work.***

I am afraid to ask when that might show.... 2007? I guess I just won't look at the video card either..