On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Derrick Brashear <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Yonggang Hu > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi List, > > > > Does anyone know how to get dkms-openafs work? > > When I wrote it, I got it to work by installing the rpm, but I make no > promise that nothing changed. > I installed it and it worked. But it failed to work after I upgraded to a new kernel, I mean it didn't automatically work, maybe there is something I need to do but I don't know. > > I am under Fedora 9, openafs > > 1.4.7, using the yum repository from official openafs.org. With > dkms-openafs > > installed, I would expect it will automatically build the corresponding > > kernel module when I upgrade to a new Linux kernel. But everytime there > is a > > new kernel, openafs client doesn't work because there is no openafs kmod. > Do > > I need to manually use dkms to build against the new kernel? If so, would > > anyone tell me how I do that? > > The dkms init script caused it to build a module in my Fedora 9 test > install, which alas I don't have anymore. > Where is the module located in your system? Are you saying the dkms-openafs will automatically build the kernel module, and then I need to manually install the module? Sorry, I never understand how the dkms-openafs is supposed to work, I haven't found any documentation about it so far. Thanks.
