Re: Show-stopper for me

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On Wednesday 08 November 2006 18:02, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> James Wilkinson <fedora <at> aprilcottage.co.uk> writes:
> > The one listed in that LWN message. The one cached in Google at
>
> http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:f8A9cnTSmhIJ:rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/fre
>shrpms/fedora/6/dkms-pwc/dkms-pwc-10.0.11-1.20061018.noarch.html+dkms-pwc+fe
>dora&hl=en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=firefox-a
>
> > which seems to have no current page, and points to a now-nonexistent
> > directory on freshrpms.net...
> >
> > I think it must have been pulled. Sorry.
>
> That was just a DKMS package anyway, i.e. a package which automates
> building the module from source, not a real binary package. It's probably
> not much harder to just go directly to the source:
> http://saillard.org/linux/pwc/
>
Kevin, if pwc is in the kernel these days, what happens if you compile the 
same module from source?  Do they conflict?  If not, what determines which 
one gets loaded?

> Make sure you have kernel-devel installed (the version corresponding to
> your kernel, including architecture, see also bug #211941), then follow the
> instructions in the source code to build the module. If there are any
> errors when building the module for the current kernel, we can probably
> tell you how to fix them. (I know a few of the common ones, at least.)

That one's already sorted.  I had a .586 kernel and a .686 kernel-devel.

Anne

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