On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 19:25 -0500, Neil Cherry wrote: > Lamont R. Peterson wrote: > > On Tuesday 28 March 2006 04:27pm, Neil Cherry wrote: > >> Allyn, Mark A wrote: > >>> Hello: > >>> > >>> I am trying to build kernel modules on a standard install > >>> of Fedora Core 5 GA. I did select the development block > >>> of packages. > >>> > >>> However there do not seem to be any kernel sources available > >>> to build kernel modules. > >>> > >>> I tried yum and did a yum look for kernel-source and it came > >>> up with nothing. > >>> > >>> Where do I get enough of the kernel source to do compiles > >>> of kernel driver modules? > >> I think it's called kernel-devel.xxxx Try: > >> > >> yum search kernel-devel > > > > Yup. It is kernel-devel. > > > > If you want to build modules (i.e. external modules) for Red Hat distros, > > install kernel-devel. If you want to build patched, custom kernels, get the > > SRPM. > > > > Ah, so that's the difference. That was driving me totally nuts. I > couldn't figure out why I couldn't compile the kernel with the > devel package but I'm very successful (when I don't remove too > much) with the kernel sources. We have all this information in the release notes which we spend many many hours writing. So you might as well as read it. http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc5/#sn-Kernel Rahul -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
