Step-by-step – Fedora 33 Realtek RTL8168 Driver Installation

Installing

2. 2. Downloading Realtek RTL8168 Driver Source

   Download RTL8168 Driver Source for GNU/Linux

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   Downloading Realtek RTL8168 Driver Source GNU/Linux Archive

   If you are using Firefox then on Prompt Choose “Open with Archive Manager”:

   

   Or After try to Select the Package by the Downloads Button on Top Panel:

   

   Instead, on Google-Chrome simply try to Choose the Package on the Bottom Panel:

   

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3. 3. Extracting RTL8168 Source Archive

   Then Extract RTL8168 Driver Source into /tmp Directory
   If it does Not Open automatically then Double-Click on File Manager:

   
   Or from Command Line:

   tar xvjf ~/Downloads/r8*.tar.bz2 -C /tmp/

4. 4. Installing Dependencies

   Then to Install Required Packages
   First, possibly to Upgrade System play:

   sudo dnf upgrade --refresh

   And then in this case Reboot with:

   sudo reboot

   Next simply play:

   sudo dnf install kernel-headers kernel-devel

   And again:

   sudo dnf groupinstall "Development Tools"

   Further you may need also the C Libraries:

   sudo dnf groupinstall "C Development Tools and Libraries"

5. 5. Installing Realtek RTL8168 Driver

   Next to Install RTL8168 Driver on Fedora
   Especially relevant: the below instructions are for the Official Realtek Driver, for the other variants follow the Developer’s instructions on GitHub!
   First, Change to the Target directory:

   cd /tmp/r8*

   And then Run the Installation Script with:

   sudo ./autorun.sh

   And then to Reboot play:

   sudo reboot

   Then to Check whether the Driver is loaded use:

   lsmod | grep r8125

   Or:

   ifconfig -a