setup with Fedora 3 failed with init not found

Greetings

I've being trying to install Fedora 3 with Openssi 1.9.2 in a machine 
with processor Intel I3 and motherboard ASUS P7H55. Since both HD and 
DVD are SATA, I had to turn on IDE emulation on BIOS to be able to 
install Fedora 3.

I have issues with the network card from this box with Fedora 3, since 
the kernel doesn't have the proper driver for it (Realtek 8168). I 
wasn't able to install OpenSSI since the setup script does expect a 
ethernet card and doesn't allow me to go further.

Then I installed the kernel source from Fedora following the instruction 
here: http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-fc3.html#kernelsrc to 
try to compile the driver downloaded from Realtek website.

I wasn't able to compile the driver: the insmod finished with the error:
r8168: Unknown symbol DMA_BIT_MASK. I believe this errors occurs because 
the driver was written for newer kernel versions and such function had 
it's name changed from the a previous name.

Then I tried to install the Openssi kernel provided here: 
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ssic-linux/kernel-ssi-2.6.10-ssi_3devel.src.rpm?download

After compiling the kernel (using the config provided by the RPM 
package), I tried to boot it and try to compile the driver, but all my 
tries finished with a

Kernel panic - not syncing: no init found. Try passing init= option to 
kernel.
Entering kbd (current=0xc19715b0, pid 2) on processor 0 due to
KDB_ENTER()
[0] kbd >

I found some messages in the mailing list archive related to this error, 
and one of them commented about a patch that would need to be applied. 
Is this the same situation? The message is quite old (2005).

Looks like I have the chicken and egg problem: I cannot install OpenSSI 
because I don't have a network card and I can't install the network 
because I don't know if the Openssi kernel will be able to allow me to 
compile the driver.

Could please provide any help on that?

I was able to boot with newer distributions (Ubuntu 10.04 and Fedora 11) 
and both recognize the network card. Here is more information about the 
hardware:

cpuinfo:

processor	: 0
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 5
model name	: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU         550  @ 3.20GHz
stepping	: 5
cpu MHz		: 3211.586
cache size	: 32 KB
physical id	: 0
siblings	: 16
fdiv_bug	: no
hlt_bug		: no
f00f_bug	: no
coma_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 11
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov 
pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm pni 
monitor ds_cpl est tm2 xtpr
bogomips	: 2390.01

lspic:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 0040 (rev 18)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 0041 (rev 18)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 3b3c (rev 06)
00:1b.0 Class 0403: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 3b56 (rev 06)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 3b42 (rev 06)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 3b4a (rev 06)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 3b4c (rev 06)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 3b34 (rev 06)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev a6)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 3b06 (rev 06)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 3b20 (rev 06)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 3b30 (rev 06)
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 3b26 (rev 06)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 
0a20 (rev a2)
01:00.1 Class 0403: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0be2 (rev a1)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.: Unknown 
device 8168 (rev 03)
03:00.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 0415

If necessary, I can provide dmesg output.

Thanks,
Alceu


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