may be a stupid question

[Jeff Vian]

On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 06:12 -0600, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 07:00:09PM -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Jeff Vian wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 20:39 +0100, Adel Essafi wrote:
> > > > hi
> > > > I need to install smlink modem driver for my amr driver. They said that
> > > > to have the Linux 2.6 kernel installed.
> > > > With FC1, I could find a feature in redhat-config-packages that installs
> > > > the kernel development kernel headers. I don t find it in FC3.
> > > > Event in the package list I did nt find something like
> > > > kernel-headers....rpm.
> > > > So, how can I get the the kernel source of FC3.
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > Headers are installed by default with the kernel rpm.
> > > Source is not usually needed.
> > >
> > > For detailed assistance with linmodems (aka winmodems) try
> > > www.linmodems.com.  The mailing list there is great and very helpful.
> > 
> > The smartlink driver for kernel 2.6 includes a 1600-line patch to ALSA
> > modules, so I'm guessing it won't install without complete source.
> > 
> > To get kernel source in FC3, you need the kernel-*.src.rpm.  Read the
> > FC3 release notes for instructions on installing it.
> I suspwect what he wants is a file called something like: 
> kernal-sourcecode,,,,  The file you refer to is a source rpm for the
> kernel.

For FC3 the kernel-sourcecode rpm has been removed. Matthew is right on
his comment and suggestion for the package that will be needed if full
source is needed.