Charles Campbell sent:
> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 10:01 AM
> To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Getting kernel source for 2.6.9-42.ELsmp
>
> Hello!
>
> I need to get an arcnet device driver up and running. Normally it
> appears to be distributed with linux, but not installed. So,
> I need to
> compile and install it, naturally.
>
> So, where is the kernel souce for 2.6.9-42.ELsmp? I can find kernel
> source for 2.6.9.
Seth Bardash wrote
> The kernel source for building the kernel is in the SRPM's directory.
>
> The original install kernel source is in
> ./4.4/os/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-42.EL.src.rpm
>
> The latest update kernel source
> ./4.4/updates/SRPM/kernel-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL.src.rpm
>
> But getting the source is just the beginning.
I was able to get the original 4.4 kernel from
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4.4/os/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-42.EL.src.rpm
using Phillip R. Shaffner's advice.
However, rpm -i kernel-2.6.9-42.EL.src.rpm
yielded no driver source anywhere under /usr/src ; in particular, no
arcnet source.
So, I tried Seth Bardash's advice to use up2date:
up2date --get-source kernel
This yielded a number of fetches, but terminated with
An HTTP error occurred:
URL:
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/updates/i386//SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL.src.rpm
Status Code: 404
Error Message: Not Found
No driver source present afterwards, either, anywhere under /usr/src.
> Note: An exploded source tree is not required to build kernel modules
against
> the currently in-use kernel.
That's basically what I want to do -- just build the arcnet code and
insmod it.
So, what am I doing wrong? How do I get that source?
Thank you,
Charles E. Campbell
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