On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 05:55:09PM -0500, Andrew Robinson wrote: > 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 Normally with the kernel rpms you have a separate kernel-headers rpm. I think you need to get one. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University 715 Stadium Dr. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
