On 01.27 Chmouel Boudjnah wrote:
> Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > Did some get VMware workstation 2.0.3 to install on a system running
> > kernel-2.4.0-9mdk? I don't seem to be able to do so. vmware-config.pl asks
> > me, where my linux source tree is. So I accepted the default choice of
> > "/usr/src/linux/include", but the config tool wasn't happy with this - it is
> > looking for version.h, which is in /usr/include/linux. So I typed this in -
> > now it complains that there is not "one of these directories "linux", "asm",
> > "net"" under /usr/include/linux.
> >
> > How to go on?
>
> you need the kernel-source installed and try also to do in
> /usr/src/linux :
>
> make mrproper
> make oldconfig
> make dep
>
> and rerun the vmware script.
>
Would it be the old war of /usr/include/linux being an independent tree or
sym-linking to /usr/src/linux/include/linux ?
Try installing the kernel-headers package that fits with the kernel and
kernel-source you have installed.
Really, to compile new kernel modules, you just need the kernel-headers
package, not kernel-source (if vmware does not patch anything inside kernel).
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