[SLUG] Compile the driver source files!
Jamie Adams
adamsj at sdf-eu.org
Sun Jul 27 21:10:01 BST 2003
On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Jonathan Worthington wrote:
> Here's my guess, but I may well be wrong. I believe that most distros don't
> install the kernel source by default. SuSE uses RPMs, right? I believe
> there is a kernel source RPM you need to put on. Drivers often need to
> compile against the kernel, thus why it's source is needed. BTW, make sure
> that any kernel source RPM you put on matches the version number of the
> kernel itself! :-)
Yeah, thats right. Its a really annoying habit of most of the distributions.
Certainly all the ones that I have used. The package you need will be called
kernel-source or kernel-headers, or both.
Jamie
adamsj at sdf-eu.org
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