There is no /boot/vmlinuz.version.h, as suggested in /usr/include/linux/version.h.
I can't compile the modem driver without a version.h, it seems.
Douglas.
Steve Holdoway wrote:
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 09:23:29 +1300, you wrote:
Encouraged by a posting on alt.os.linux.mandrake, I took another crack at my downloaded RPM file, with the following result:
rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.22.10mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] src]$ ls /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES
linux-2.4.22-q10.tar.bz2 linux-mdkconfig.h linux-merge-modules.awk README.Mandrake
linux-2.4.22.tar.bz2 linux-merge-config.awk README.kernel-sources
I used file-roller to extract part of linux-2.4.22.tar.bz2 (there must have been a command-line way of doing this). I now have a bucket-full of header files in /usr/src/linux-2.4.22/include/linux/, but no version.h, being the file that gave me the error message in the first place. Here's the error message again:
#error "To build kernel modules please do the following:"
#error ""
#error " o Have the kernel sources installed"
Done. Hooray.
#error " o Make sure that the symbolic link"
#error " /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build exists and points to"
#error " the matching kernel source directory"
Which directory do they mean? I assume /usr/src/linux-2.4.22/. Anyway, how do you make a symbolic link? I think that I can do it in Nautilus, but how do you do it at the command line?
#error " o Now copy /boot/vmlinuz.version.h to"
#error " /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include/linux/version.h"
Gotcha. There is no /boot/vmlinuz.version.h. Here's /boot:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] src]$ ls /boot
boot.0300 diag2.img kernel.h@ message-graphic us.klt
config@ grub/ kernel.h-2.4.22-10mdk message-text vmlinuz@
config-2.4.22-10mdk initrd-2.4.22-10mdk.img map System.map@ vmlinuz-2.4.22-10mdk
diag1.img initrd.img@ message@ System.map-2.4.22-10mdk
What do I do now? Buy an Apple? Man, this is a steep learning curve. Freedom sure don't come cheap. When's that bring-it-along-and-give-it-a-crack night? This is a laptop, after all.
You need to install the kernel-source rpm. Alternatively, download the latest ( 2.4.24 or 2.6.2 ) tarball from www.kernel.org, and get away from this rpm hell!
hth,
Steve
