KERNEL HEADERS

[David McCormick]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 12:16 -0400, David McCormick wrote:
>   
>> Ok I checked and as I thought the headers are installed. My problem is 
>> that I have to install a link to them and can't figure out what file 
>> they are in in order to link to them.
>>     
>
> Are the headers for the exact same kernel you are compiling under?
>
> poc
>
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>
>   
>> Dave
>>
>> Antonio Olivares wrote:
>>     
>>> --- On Sun, 9/21/08, David McCormick <dmccormick at wvmcc.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> From: David McCormick <dmccormick at wvmcc.com>
>>>> Subject: KERNEL HEADERS
>>>> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>>>> Date: Sunday, September 21, 2008, 7:40 AM
>>>> I have been trying to install drivers for a Marvell nic and
>>>> an Atheros 
>>>> wireless on my new Toshiba laptop but when I run the
>>>> install scripts I 
>>>> get the error Kernel Headers not found. If I try to install
>>>> them RPM it 
>>>> says they are already installed. I have searched the
>>>> archives but can't 
>>>> find a reference to where they are.
>>>> I have loaded FC-9 x86_64, I use it on two other machines
>>>> with no 
>>>> problem, on a Toshiba Satellite and the hardware is factory
>>>> installed on 
>>>> it. I have found the tar balls to get them working if I can
>>>> just find 
>>>> where the headers are.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Dave
>>>>
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>>> # rpm -qa kernel-headers
>>>
>>> if they ae installed will return 
>>> [students at localhost ~]$ rpm -qa kernel-headers
>>> kernel-headers-2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i386
>>> [students at localhost ~]$
>>>
>>> if they are not present for your running kernel `uname -r`, then you may
>>> # yum install kernel-headers
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Antonio 
>>>
>>>
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Yes. Its looking for them under /usr/src/kernel and they don't seem to 
be there. I was wondering if they might be in a library somewhere else.

Dave