On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Andrew Junev <a-j@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hello All, > > I have a vt6656 WiFi adapter that needs a separate driver to work in > Linux. The driver is neither in "native" Fedora repos, nor in > rpmfusion (at least I don't know how to search for it, so I think it's > not there). > > So whenever I do a 'yum update' and get a new kernel, I have to > compile a new kernel module as well. Currently, I first reboot to a > new kernel, then compile a module and then do another reboot just to > check everything is loading properly on bootup. > > How do I compile my driver for a new kernel _before_ actually booting > into that new kernel, so that I could be prepared with the new kernel > module already on first reboot? Depending on your source tree there are a few different ways. Most kernel module sources will use 'uname -r' to find the path to the kernel source tree. You may need to set a variable explicitly. For example, I grabbed a vt6656 build from git and saw in the mk.sh script: KDIR="/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build" You can try passing the kernel version you want to build instead of running uname. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
