KERNEL HEADERS

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sun Sep 21 16:42:52 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 12:16 -0400, David McCormick wrote:
> Ok I checked and as I thought the headers are installed. My problem is 
> that I have to install a link to them and can't figure out what file 
> they are in in order to link to them.

Are the headers for the exact same kernel you are compiling under?

poc

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> Dave
> 
> Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > --- On Sun, 9/21/08, David McCormick <dmccormick at wvmcc.com> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> From: David McCormick <dmccormick at wvmcc.com>
> >> Subject: KERNEL HEADERS
> >> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> >> Date: Sunday, September 21, 2008, 7:40 AM
> >> I have been trying to install drivers for a Marvell nic and
> >> an Atheros 
> >> wireless on my new Toshiba laptop but when I run the
> >> install scripts I 
> >> get the error Kernel Headers not found. If I try to install
> >> them RPM it 
> >> says they are already installed. I have searched the
> >> archives but can't 
> >> find a reference to where they are.
> >> I have loaded FC-9 x86_64, I use it on two other machines
> >> with no 
> >> problem, on a Toshiba Satellite and the hardware is factory
> >> installed on 
> >> it. I have found the tar balls to get them working if I can
> >> just find 
> >> where the headers are.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Dave
> >>
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> >
> > # rpm -qa kernel-headers
> >
> > if they ae installed will return 
> > [students at localhost ~]$ rpm -qa kernel-headers
> > kernel-headers-2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i386
> > [students at localhost ~]$
> >
> > if they are not present for your running kernel `uname -r`, then you may
> > # yum install kernel-headers
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Antonio 
> >
> >
> >       
> >
> >   
> 




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