ons 2007-03-21 klockan 09:25 -0700 skrev John Poelstra: > If I am running the a i686 kernel, why do I get a kernel-devel with i586 in the name? My guess is it doesn't matter, but wondering why they aren't the same? > > #uname -a > Linux hostname 2.6.20-1.2925.fc6 #1 SMP Sat Mar 10 19:15:16 EST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux I'm not sure you can trust the output of uname to tell you what kernel you're running. I seem to recall it being i686 even on an i586 kernel, if the CPU is i686. Or am I wrong? More info about why you'd get an i586 kernel and a fix for the problem here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/FC6Common#head-e0676100ebd965b92fbaa7111097983a3822f143 /abo