Hi guys,

I posted earlier on the forum, trying to get my Marvell-Yukon 88E8072, I decided to update the kernel to 3.2.2-1 and retry the module install.
Earlier post:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...7-i686-926301/

Now however, when running the installation, I receive an error at :
Compile the kernel (error) [Failed]

I consulted the installation log:
I did install glibc, kernel-PAE-devel.i686 and kernel-headers.i686

I would appreciate any help as I am relatively lost as I've just started using linux as a desktop/developing platform and have little experience and understanding in the inner workings of Unix(like) environments.

before you go to far on fedora with using a non standard kernel NOT from the fedora 16 repo

have you blacklisted the kernel and ALL kernel-mods AND xorg
1) kernel
2)kernel-devel
3) akmod-????? or kmod-????
4) *x11*

you do NOT want any of those updating without a matching kernel
nor do you want fedora replacing your custom built one .


ok i had to google what a "Marvell-Yukon 88E8072" is
it would have been nice to know in your post that it is a "Gigabit Ethernet Controller"

http://www.marvell.com/support/downl...sX4!1151680137
has a kernel 2.6 version for a old fedora guessing fedora 14 or older added on "9/19/2011"



but a LOT of new hardware was added to the 3 kernel
are you positive that it is not already supported

it should be listed in the hardware

EDIT:
I have successfully found the solution to my network interface, the problem lay in gnome 3 popping up errors for DHCP not being present, I apologise for the confusion I may have caused. However I am still interested in fixing the kernel module builds. Should I revert back to the stock kernel that came with Fedora 16 release or can this be fixed for 3.2.2-1?

For the kernel upgrade I executed the following code into the terminal:
Doing a quick double check on that:
These are from the fedora-updates repo I believe.

How do I go about blacklisting the following and also what would are the implications or purpose there of? I'd like to better my understanding so that in the future I'd be more likely to diagnose a problem as the one I've been experiencing.

Regarding lspci |grep:
Due to running the install script from Realtek which removes the current module installed, "sk98lin" is not currently installed so I cannot modprobe it,

Here is the output showing the existence of the hardware from lspci:
I suppose this is not the proper thread location to discuss my networking problem, hence why I have the other thread. However, the problem with the adapter was not that it did not pick up the hardware, rather Gnome 3 displayed the message "Activation of network controller failed" which is mentioned in the other thread.

as long as the current running kernel IS installed with yum and not one you built from source
there is no need to "Should I revert back to the stock kernel that came with Fedora 16 "

the pae is just fine for a old 32 bit computer with 4 gig of ram 32 bit normally sees only 3.3 gig of the 4
or a 64 bit with ONLY the small amount of ram ,4 gig is not much ram


however i would recommend using the fedora 64 bit if this IS a 64 bit cpu
and if you have More than 4 gig of ram

as to blacklisting something in yum
Please read the man page
and use the exclude=??????? ???????
to /etc/yum.conf
example