Slackware 12 kernel headers

Mig21 · 07-06-2007, 06:33 AM

I set up my Slackware 12 laptop to use vmlinuz-generic-2.6.21.5 instead of the default vmlinuz-huge-smp-2.6.21.5-smp because it's not possible to put the machine to sleep with the smp kernel. So sleeping works now.

But I have a new problem - installing vmware I got the following error:

Code:

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] 

The directory of kernel headers (version 2.6.21.5-smp) does not match your 
running kernel (version 2.6.21.5).  Even if the module were to compile 
successfully, it would not load into the running kernel.

It sounds like a fair complaint, or is the vmware installer confused? I looked on all 6 cds and I can't find any package that would give me the headers for the generic-2.6.21.5 kernel.

Anybody else run into this?

MS3FGX · 07-06-2007, 06:44 AM

The package containing the headers is in "extra/linux-2.6.21.5-nosmp-sdk" on CD 2. The specific package you want is named "kernel-headers-2.6.21.5-i386-2".

Mig21 · 07-06-2007, 08:24 AM

yey, it works, thanks! i don't know how i missed that directory.

onebuck · 07-06-2007, 11:00 AM

Hi,

To the OP & others! You should read the Slackware 12.0 'CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT', 'RELEASE_NOTES' and 'README' to get information about your install. PV has provided us with loads of documentation, so use it.

Edit: Not too seem cold, but a lot of problems could be resolved or not even created if everyone would use the documentation provided.