On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 03:42:13PM -0500, Charles E Campbell Jr enlightened us:
> 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.
>
There should have been tarballs and config files in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES,
unless you've modified your rpm macros to point to a different %_top
> 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?
>
Have you looked at http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel?
Matt
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