Help with network card issue

[Maurice Mines]

Dear list, I am a graduate student at the University of Northern  
Colorado in the Educational Technology Department and I recently  
purchased HP Pavilion Elite m9252p desktop computer and installed  
Fedora 9 in a second partition. My problem is that the realtek  
RTL8168c GB ethernet card is not being recognized even though a mod  
probe shows that the correct card is being recognized and several  
internet searches show that there are several drivers for the card  
available but none are in the rpm package format. Does anyone know if  
there are rpm packages available for this card and if not is there an  
alternative card type that I should switch this to to allow the fedora  
side of the machine to have access? If this card is completely  
unsupported what would someone recommend as a replacement for this  
card next year when the warranty expires? P.S. This card works just  
fine in Windows.

Maurice Mines
Master's Student
Educational Technology
University of Northern Colorado
mine1533 at bears.unco.edu