On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 15:05 -0400, jludwig wrote: > On Saturday 14 May 2005 02:27 pm, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote: > > jludwig wrote: > > > On Saturday 14 May 2005 02:01 pm, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote: > > >> Apparently the FC kernels are all hacked/patched by Red Hat. Thus > > >> things like ndiswrapper won't compile against them. I need two things > > >> that require a stock kernel from kernel.org: ndiswrapper, and an > > >> unofficial patch that makes my stupid Dell Inspiron 6000's DVD player > > >> use DMA. > > >> > > >> Now my question is what ramifications will there be for using a stock > > >> kernel on an FC3 system. What will break? > > >> > > >> Oh, I have a second question. Where can I get the stock FC3 kernel > > >> config > > >> file. Honestly, the kernel has gotten so big, that I have no idea which > > >> options should be turned off or on. Its nice to just load the default > > >> FC3 one, but I don't know where it is. > > >> > > >> Thanks for the info. > > > > > > I have done so with the 2.4 kernel. > > > > > > You don't have to loose the Red Hat/Fedora kernel and can set up grub to > > > boot from either(which is the wiswst choice anyways). > > > > Thats what I was planning on doing. Still, curious about the answer to my > > question though. Also would like to know where the default FC3 kernel > > config file is. Thanks. > > > > -- C > If you mean source it is in the /usr/src/2.6****** directory > -- > John H Ludwig > For most packages using the kernel source (except compiling the kernel itself) the headers are all that is needed, and those can be found in /lib/modules/<kernel version>/..... As has already been mentioned, it may be necessary to install the kernel-devel package for FC4 but I have not tried FC4 yet so do not know about that.
