what is kernel-source??
i recently installed the RedHat Fedora Core 4 and i have no previous experience with linux, so i am completely new, and i mean very very new...
i was following a guide in installing my DLINK DWL-650+ wireless PCMCIA card, and in somewhere of the guide, i was asked to install and verify the presence of a kernel-source pakage...
i typed "ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include/linux/version.h" and i got an unsuccessful output :
ls: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/build/include/linux/version.h No such file or directory
i followed the guide and run the "Add/Remove Application", the guide asked me to find a missing package known as gcc and also "kernel-source" or something similiar, the problem is, i can't find it anywhere in it... so i can only install the gcc compiler but not the kernel-source...
next, i browsed the linux installation cd and found some files starts with the word "kernel"(e.g kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.i686.rpm, kernel-xen0-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.i686.rpm and many more)... but when i try to install it(kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.i686.rpm), it says "the package 'kernel' has already installed"... i'm wondering whether is this package what the guide was talking about, i think not as what the guide needs is "kernel-source" and not "kernel"...
i've google "kernel-source" and been to "kernel. org" where kernel source is avaliable... i have no idea which to download and i have no idea how to deal with it or how to install it after i download it...
please, anyone, can anyone tell me how to solve this or where can i get the kernel-source from RedHat Fedora Core 4's cd or where to find the kernel source and what to do with it when i found it...
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