[CentOS] CentOS 5.3 and NTFS

2009-06-27 Thread Alan McKay
Aa, I'm pulling out my hair over here! I have an external USB drive which I had at work, connected just fine to my CentOS 5.3 box. I recall there was some jiggery-pokery involved, but do not recall just what. So now I'm on my wife's freshly installed CentOS 5.3 laptop trying to get it

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3 and NTFS

2009-06-27 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Alan McKayalan.mc...@gmail.com wrote: Aa, I'm pulling out my hair over here! I have an external USB drive which I had at work, connected just fine to my CentOS 5.3  box.  I recall there was some jiggery-pokery involved, but do not recall just what. So

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3 and NTFS

2009-06-27 Thread Alan McKay
The fuse module is built by dkms.  Make sure you have the kernel devel package that *matches* your running kernel.  What is the output of: uname -mr and rpm -qa kernel\* | sort [r...@localhost ~]# uname -mr 2.6.18-128.el5 i686 [r...@localhost ~]# rpm -qa kernel\* | sort

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3 and NTFS

2009-06-27 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Alan McKayalan.mc...@gmail.com wrote: The fuse module is built by dkms.  Make sure you have the kernel devel package that *matches* your running kernel.  What is the output of: uname -mr and rpm -qa kernel\* | sort [r...@localhost ~]# uname -mr

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3 and NTFS

2009-06-27 Thread Alan McKay
Can you see that your kernel-devel (2.6.18-128.1.14) is newer than your running kernel (2.6.18-128) ? No, that was not obvious to me I strongly suggest that you run 'yum update' and get the latest kernel and reboot. OK, will do. thanks -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3 and NTFS

2009-06-27 Thread Dag Wieers
On Sat, 27 Jun 2009, Alan McKay wrote: The fuse module is built by dkms.  Make sure you have the kernel devel package that *matches* your running kernel.  What is the output of: uname -mr and rpm -qa kernel\* | sort [r...@localhost ~]# uname -mr 2.6.18-128.el5 i686 [r...@localhost ~]# rpm

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3 and NTFS

2009-06-27 Thread Alan McKay
But what is far the easiest solution is to head over to the elrepo repository at: Good luck and please report back ! Thanks again. Already started the yum update so if that does not take care of it then I will try that other stuff. Will let you know how it goes cheers, -Alan -- “Don't

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3 and NTFS

2009-06-27 Thread Dag Wieers
On Sun, 28 Jun 2009, Dag Wieers wrote: No need for dkms, dkms-fuse, kernel-devel, kernel-headers or a compiler. I recommend it nowadays over any dkms packages. Good luck and please report back ! I just noticed that my email client (alpine) was still configured to use the centos.org