On my Ximian Evolution Summary screen, I notice that RedHat has an advisory on the kernel. Given that kernel handling is an area of ignorance for me, "Cool!" I think. Here's a chance to get some experience. I clicked through and downloaded these two files: kernel-2.4.20-19.9.athlon.rpm kernel-2.4.20-19.9.src.rpm I downloaded the src rpm because I thought at some point in the near future, I might try building my own kernel, knowing that that's a good skill to have. I installed both the the command "rpm -ivh <filename>". I checked grub.conf and rebooted into the new kernel. After booting into the new kernel, I realized I did not have a network connection. I remembered that I had had to add the NIC module for the Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard with the 2.4.20-8 kernel that came with the Shrike distribution. I dug up those instructions and tried to compile the nvnet module again. When I did, I got about two screen fulls of error messages. (The make had worked without problem before.) Looking through the messages, I thought these might be the pertinent messages: /usr/include/linux/modversions.h:1:2: #error Modules should never use kernel-headers system headers, /usr/include/linux/modversions.h:2:2: #error but rather headers from an appropriate kernel-source package. I figured this meant the compilation needed the kernel source. I thought I had installed that, so I ran the command "rpm -qa | grep kernel". The result was this: kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-13 kernel-2.4.20-19.9 kernel-source-2.4.20-8 kernel-2.4.20-8 I ran the command "rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.20-19.9.src.rpm" again. Yet with the "rpm -qa" command, the 2.4.20-19.9 source did not show up,again. At this point I figured there must be a fundamental knowledge problem. Would some kind soul explain to me what I don't know. Thanks! Andrew Robinson -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
