Re: Where do I get Centos 5 Kernel sources for compiling drivers?

[Richard Chapman <rchapman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmmm... Thanks Peter
Actually - this is quite a big problem. It seems like new kernels come along reasonably often - and my intention was to leave this machine in a corner somewhere without any screen and manage it through nx and webmin.  I have seen the problem already because as soon as it was on the Internet it got a new kernel - and after rebooting it couldn't find the eth0 again.
I did just the insmod part of the procedure - and the network came up again - but as soon as I reboot it disappears again. I realise now that i really need to repeat the whole procedure with the appropriate version of kernel-devel. I have since done this, and it now boots OK.

I guess there is nothing I can do but wait and hope for redhat to fix the driver - is there?

Richard.



Peter Kjellstrom wrote:

On Friday 29 June 2007, Richard Chapman wrote:
  

 Thanks Peter and Akemi.

 All working. Amazing really. I now have my Centos 5 on the Internet.
 I wonder whether it is worth re-installing Cebtos 5 and trying to get my
new driver (.ko file presumably) to load off a USB drive at install time.
Do you think this would be straight forward. Is there anything to gain?
    

That wouldn't be entierly trivial, and you wouldn't gain anything. Now just 
remember the steps you took so you can repeat them when the next security 
update kernel comes around.

/Peter

  

 Richard.
    

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