RE: [ILUG] Please help "make"ing PCTel modules

From: Dermot Daly (dermot.daly at domain itsmobile.com)
Date: Tue 03 Sep 2002 - 18:20:58 IST


Nope, I don't think so - I tried installing the kernel headers (and in
fact an update from RHN) - They still had a problems where timer.h
included asm/msr.h, which was not part of the kernel headers...so in the
end I had to install the kernel source too.
Dermot.

-----Original Message-----
From: Conor Daly [mailto:conor.daly at domain oceanfree.net]
Sent: 03 September 2002 16:45
To: ilug at domain linux.ie
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Please help "make"ing PCTel modules

On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 02:24:29PM +0100 or so it is rumoured
hereabouts,
Dermot Daly thought:
> Eric,
> I too had woes trying to install a modem driver - My problems were
> similar to those below. Fortunately with help from ilug I got it
> solved.
>
> The problem lies in the header files that are installed by default -
> You problably didn't install the "kernel development" package when
> installing RH. All you need to do is to find the kernel sources rpm
> (its on one of the RH disks) and install this. I can't remember the
> package name but it is something like kernel-source-..rpm
>
> To install it you type rpm -iv <path to rpm file>
>
> Then re-run your configure and make and it should work fine.

or possibly just the kernel headers (conveniently called
"kernel-headers-.....rpm")

Conor

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