On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:32:04 +0100
On 28 Sep 2006, at 18:25, Rick Stevens wrote:
On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 16:49 +0100, Greg Frith wrote:
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You must be root to do the "rpm -Uvh" (I'd recommend "rpm -ivh").
Also
note that the "kernel-devel" RPM is NOT the kernel source RPM. It
is only the kernel headers..and is usually enough to build most 3rd
party drivers.
Thank Rick,
My apologies, I have installed the kernel-devel package, i get the
error when trying to install kernel-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.src.rpm. I am
also doing this as root. So,
[root@wharfe]: rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.src.rpm
error: cannot create %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES.
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- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer
- VitalStream, Inc.
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Ran into a problem setting up an ether net bridge in an old computer.
My guess in the end is the problem was actually a problem associated
with the mother board chipset or bios rather than any of the cards I
was using or the method. I might have been able to beat the problem by
going into the kernel but decided it was simpler to just not do it. My
main point is your challenge may be more an issue related to the age of
the computer rather than the kernel/bios or the cards being used. If
you can try to find a "less old" computer to run things on
Norm
Thanks for your comments Norm. Unfortunately (for me) i think there may be a lot of sense in what you say. I did however get the wireless cad working in the end, after compiling ndiswrapper and then using this to load a Win32 driver. There was i thinking that any old box would be able to cope with an ethernet card. BTW, the card is identified correctly in an 'lspci', and modprobe gives no errors when loading the r8169 driver.
