On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 12:50 +0530, NaGp wrote: > >I assume you installed the kernel-devel rpm and otherwise did not touch > >a thing? > >(assuming you want to build against your distributions' kernel and not > >some self built kernel) > > > > > I wanted to install drivers on the stock 2.6.9-11.ELsmp kernel. For that > I downloaded the kernel-2.6.9-11.EL.src.rpm, extracted it, applied > patches (through rpmbuild -bp) and then moved the source directory to > the /usr/src directory. this isn't going to work; you HAVE to use the kernel-devel stuff if you want things to work against the rpm kernel > I had a devel RPM already installed, but that > was not sufficient to compile the drivers, as it needed more files. that's odd. very odd. kernel-devel is supposed to be complete. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
