Rebuilding Kmod-wl

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Wed Jun 24 04:52:25 UTC 2009


On 23.06.2009 21:06, homburg at tips-Q.com wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:18:37 +0200
> Pikachu_2014 <pikachu.2014 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Why not install the akmod-wl available on RPM Fusion ? In
>> your case, it is perfect, since you have a custom kernel;
>> the module will be rebuilt the next time you'll reboot on
>> your vanilla kernel.
>>
>> Simple and easy :)
>>
> akmod kernels are dependent on kernel-devel.rpm for the
> kernel to be accomodated and cannot be used for a vanilla
> kernel. 

Ehh, that is not true. Akmods are meant to handle that use-case as well
(of cause all files that are needed to compile modules are required),
but I haven't tested it for a long while. If it doesn't work file bugs.
I'm a bit behind with working on them, but hope to find time for akmod
bugs soon again.

CU
knurd




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