The OP never did mention which version of Fedora he was talking about, or how he got it.On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Tom Yates wrote:
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Ken Johanson wrote:
But since it didnt detect my DGE-530 NIC, and the drivers that Dlink kindly provides need to be compiled, I'm SCREWED by the politics because a bunch of headers and fundamantal-to-any-Linux kernel source is not installed. Thats right, the most rudimentary component of the system besides the kernel itslef, not placed in /usr/src/linux. Flame*Nuclear.
i'm sorry if this is a really dim question, but in what sense is the kernel source not available? i have the kernel-source package installed, and it's stuck about a quarter of a gig of files under /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358. they look a lot like the source of such kernels as i've built recently.
am i completely missing some important point? is this not the kernel source?
No, AFAIK you're missing nothing. The kernel source is provided, and he's
just having a big rant about nothing.
Dim questions are usually the ones that are worth asking...
jh
However, I just installed FC 3 test 3, checked the "everything" box, and there are no kernel sources I can find. Up2date offered a new kernel, but did not offer kernel sources. So I dunno, but of course it *is* a test version.
My FC2 is dual-booted on this machine, and I'm sure it has kernel sources, but I'm not sure whether they installed with "everything" or if I picked them up later with apt.
In either case, it *might* be that the OP has a valid point, perhaps someone should check. Does just checking "software development" or whatever boxes on installation install the kernel source? Having it available by yum or apt is a catch-22 if you need them to get your NIC working....
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