vmware on FC1, on inspiron 8100

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Peter Kiem wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> > i didn't have to do that, and running "vmware-config.pl" ran just fine.
> > now, keep in mind, i haven't yet moved on to installing the guest OS. are
> > you saying that you needed to set CC to just get vmware-config.pl to run,
> 
> I tried vmware-config.pl on the standard FC1 kernel and it failed to build
> the modules.  I had to do the export to get the modules to compile.

ah, that explains it, since i've been compiling my own kernels since
back around 2.5.40, so my kernel is always up to date with my current
compiler and i never need this hack.

thanks.  more later as i get more deeply into this.

rday