Well Renee Klawitter helped me, and youre right, it was the patch, its all working now!
thnx for your help all. Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards, Martijn Marsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> System Engineer AFAB Geldservice B.V. Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:
I'm not currently running 2.6.14 but I am running VMWare Workstation 5 installed on Debian Testing/Etch running on an AMD64 machine. Have you gotten the vmware-any-any-update94.tar.gz update and installed it? Regards, Jeremy Martijn Marsman wrote:Hello list :D Iam installing VMware for linux on my Debian 3.1 machine uname -a --> Linux Covenant 2.6.14-686 #1 PREEMPT Mon Nov 7 16:59:27 CET 2005 i686 GNU/Linux i have installed it before and it worked perfect, but now on my new system, it refuses to compile a module (vmnet). the output is this: / Extracting the sources of the vmnet module. Building the vmnet module. Using 2.6.x kernel build system. make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only' make -C /lib/modules/2.6.14-686/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.14' CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only/driver.o In file included from /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only/vnet.h:14, from /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only/vnetInt.h:10, from /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only/driver.c:40: /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only/vm_atomic.h:54:5: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined In file included from /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only/vm_oui.h:13, from /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only/vnetInt.h:11, from /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only/driver.c:40: /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only/vm_basic_asm.h:48:5: warning: "_MSC_VER" is not defined /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only/driver.c: In function `VNetProcessOwnsPort': /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only/driver.c:1698: error: structure has no member named `max_fds' make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only/driver.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.14' make: *** [vmnet.ko] Error 2 make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only' Unable to build the vmnet module. For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please visit our Web site at "http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html"; and "http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/prebuilt_modules_linux.html";. Execution aborted. Covenant:/home/tijn/vmware-distrib# / i dont know what _MSC_VER is, or what it does. is this a common problem, did more people had this issue with a newer kernel? Thanks in advance, Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards, Martijn Marsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> System Engineer AFAB Geldservice B.V.
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