On Friday 15 October 2004 11:41, Fritz Whittington wrote: >On or about 2004-10-15 10:17, John Hodrien whipped out a trusty #2 > >pencil and scribbled: >> 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 > >The OP never did mention which version of Fedora he was talking > about, or how he got it. > >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. > Humm, I just checked the dvd of FC3T3 I burnt yesterday, and the original squawker is correct, there are no kernel srcs on the dvd. I build mine from kernel.org anyway, but whats the deal? Speak up redhat! >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.... -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
