On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Aaron Gaudio wrote: > According to this (http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT4389927951.html) > article, you must have the linux kernel source tree, with compiled > binaries (at least the vermagic.o file) in order to build an kernel > module outside of the kernel tree. > > For obvious reasons, this is highly inconvenient. However, I've noticed > that the NVIDIA kernel driver installation is able to install the > nvidia.ko module without needing a precompiled source tree, and also > VMWare is able to compile vmmon.o and vmnet.o (notice the use of the > older .o naming scheme rather than .ko) without error (all of these > successfully load into the kernel, though they taint it). The required source (aka kernel include files) are already part of the 'kernel' rpm. To check: ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build > Is there a guide or howto available which describes the process without > requiring a compiled source tree? Check the FC3 release notes. It at file:///usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html Satish
