On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 03:14:46PM -0500, Andy Zbikowski (Zibby) wrote:
> run uname -a to determine what version of the linux kernel you're running.
> 
> You need the same kernel headers as your running kernel. If you compiled
> your own kernel, point the thing your compiling at that. You don't need to
> find it as an rpm, you can grab kernel source from ftp.us.kernel.org and
> extract it to /usr/src/linux (clean up symlinks, extract, create new
> symlinks) or extract it to your home directory (or where ever it won't
> overwrite soemthing).

Do _NOT_ extract the kernel in /usr/src/linux. That place is for the 
distribution-managed sources and includes. There have been a few threads
on LKML and Linus's opinion is that /usr/src/linux is not good.

Extract it into /usr/local/src/linux instead.

> Is there a standard enviorment varible for specifing where your kernel
> sources are? KERNER_DIR or something?

Why would you need something like this? Usually modules not distributed with
the kernel like udf, alsa, etc. let you specify the kernel source directory
as an argument to the "configure" script.

florin

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