I'm trying to get a couple of things installed on my system and the both the nvidia driver and the sound driver need to recompile the source, but I don't have it installed because I updated to 2.4.20-30.9 using the red hat network. Or at least I don't think they're installed. I haven't been able to find the headers, thought I'm not really sure where to look. Any help would be appreciated.

Peace

you need the kernel-headers rpm package, version 2.4.20-30.9 (possibly w/o .9)
check with
rpm -qi kernel-headers # probably no output

My kernel is 2.4.18, rpm -qi kernel-headers -> kernel-headers-2.4.18-13

similarly, my source rpm kernel-source-2.4.18-13

It says not installed. Where can I get this rpm? I should probably have posted this on the newbie board, cause that's what I am.

it may be on the cds you have, if not try searching on the red hat page or here http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/

Found it! Just had to dig on the net a little deeper. Red hat keeps src updates here: http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/lin...9/en/os/SRPMS/

Peace

Okay, that didn't work. I've been digging through redhat's ftp server, I think I looked through every thread, and I haven't found anything useful. I'm out of ideas.

Peace.

Alternatively, grab the latest Kernel source tarball ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kerne....4-rc2.tar.bz2 and recompile the kernel and set up the /usr/src/linux sym link to direct to /usr/src/linux-2.6.4-rc2.

Installing directly from the source is always a good idea so that you can avoid problems such as this.

Stupid, stupid me.

When I installed red hat originally I didn't install the kernel source because I figured "when the hell am I ever going to need to recompile the kernel, I'm just writing a little bit of C code and doing everyday usage stuff."

If only I'd known.

I popped in the red hat disks and installed the rpm(s) for the kernel source, then the updater brought it up to my current kernel version, and that solved my problem.

Then the nvidia installer was able to find the headers and compile itself something useful. It worked, I was happy.

Now if only I could get a driver for my audigy ls