Sluggers,
I've just installed FC5 onto a single processor P4 and it all went
fairly smoothly, except that it claims to have detected my sound card
but no sound comes out, (shrugs, par for the course with Linux).
However, now I want to install VMware and compile the modules. Of course
this requires the kernel headers, which, even though I ticked all the
development check boxes, weren't installed by default and I can't find
them on any of the distribution CD's. So a quick uname -a reveals that
I'm running kernel 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp. So we download and install
kernel-smp-devel which creates the directory;
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp-i686
I now try to run vmware-config.pl and when it asks for the kernel header
source, I point it at said directory and of course being Linux it
doesn't work, but returns the error;
The kernel defined by this directory of header files does not have
the same
address space size as your running kernel.
Any takers before I run screaming back to MS and admit that Linux was a
mistake and that I'll never ever doubt the software from a monopolistic
corporate giant ever again? Seriously though, why why why can't Linux
ever just work? After many years of using Linux my bucket of tolerance
for it's lack of polish is just about empty. I simply can't be bothered
with Linux anymore precisely because of this sort of thing. How hard can
it be to deliver the kernel headers for the kernel that you deliver on a
supposedly polished distribution.
TIA's
Pete
P.S sorry for the spray but really if Linux is ever gonna be taken
seriously this sort of crap has to stop.
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