Re: How to apply kernel source updates.

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On Monday 07 April 2003 03:24 am, James Stanhope wrote:
> Greetings folks.
>
> Can anyone tell me how to apply Red Hat's source update RPM's to the
> original 7.2 kernel source tree?  (I hope this is not a dumb question,
> but I have spent many hours trying to find a set of instructions/hints
> on the RH site and through Google without any success.)  I don't
> actually want to recompile the whole kernel, just a driver module which
> I need.
>
>
> Background...
>
> I am trying to set up a gateway/router based on RHL 7.2 using the DLink
> DFE-580TX quad-port NIC.  It doesn't work with the standard
> "sundance.o" kernel module that kudzu sets up and I have worked out
> that I need to compile an updated one.
>
> So I have down-loaded the module source from Donald Becker's
> www.scyld.com site as well as the source RPMs for the latest kernel
> update (2.4.18-27.7.x).  However the kernel source RPM unpacks into a
> bunch of config & patch files, with a few awk & script files thrown in
> for good measure, and I haven't any idea of how to proceed.  (It's
> obvious I'm not a kernel developer!)
>
> If I just go ahead and compile the module anyway, then insmod reports
> that the module requires kernel 2.4.7-10 and lists a bunch of
> unresolved symbols.  So I guess I'm stuck... "help!"

You want to install the kernel-source-${version}.i386.rpm package that 
matches your running kernel, not the kernel-${version}.src.rpm

The kernel files wil be installed in /usr/src/linux-${version}. You should 
then be able to build the driver.

Hope that helps,
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