Fedora Core 3 kernel source problem.

Zombie13 · 11-27-2005, 12:58 PM

I'm trying to install the drivers for my nVidia graphics card, which require the kernel sources to build the kernel module.

After a fresh install of Fedora Core 3, I ran "yum install upgrade". I'm now running on kernel "2.6.12-1.1381_FC3". However, if I do "yum install kernel-devel", I get the following...

Code:

[root@media yum.repos.d]# yum install kernel-devel
Setting up Install Process
Setting up Repos
atrpms                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
http://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/Linux/Fedo...ta/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (110, 'Connection timed out')>
Trying other mirror.
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
updates-released          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
freshrpms                 100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 245 kB    00:01
MD Read   : ################################################## 1062/1062
atrpms    : ################################################## 1062/1062
base      : ################################################## 2622/2622
updates-re: ################################################## 962/962
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================|  99 kB    00:00
MD Read   : ################################################## 291/291
freshrpms : ################################################## 291/291
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package kernel-devel.i686 0:2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 set to be installed
--> Running transaction check

Dependencies Resolved
Transaction Listing:
  Install: kernel-devel.i686 0:2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 - updates-released
Total download size: 3.8 M
Is this ok [y/N]: n
Exiting on user Command
Complete!
[root@media yum.repos.d]#

Obviously this package doesn't match my kernel. I've also tried "yum install kernel-devel-2.6.12-1.1381_FC3" but it says "No Match for argument: kernel-devel-2.6.12-1.1381_FC3, Nothing to do". Eventually I will need to install the Linuxant "Stack16" version of the 2.6.12-1.1381 kernel, to get ndiswrapper working.

Thanks for any help in advance!

reddazz · 11-28-2005, 01:40 PM

Try

Code:

#yum upgrade
#yum install kernel-devel

dingaling · 11-28-2005, 03:54 PM

There is no kernel-devel past 1372 for FC3. I found this out the hard way. Apparently the sources have already been rolled in.

reddazz · 11-28-2005, 04:48 PM

Oh, well so my method won't work. Maybe you could downgrade your kernel and then install the kernel devel package.

dingaling · 11-28-2005, 09:53 PM

No need to downgrade. The kernel sources are already in the build directory for 1381.

The kernel headers I meant.

Zombie13 · 11-29-2005, 02:11 AM

So does this mean I already have the required sources installed? I haven't tried to build any other modules, such as ivtv. So this could be a problem with the nVidia drivers? I had this machine fully installed with Fedora Core 3 in the past without this trouble, so that was probably a slightly older kernel.

Being as the default kernel-devel package yum wanted to install was 2.6.12-1.1372_FC3, couldn't I install that kernel? I tried "yum install kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3", but no cigar.

Damn, this is annoying. After building a fully working MythTV machine with a PlayStation emulator, 3D acceleration etc, I did a system upgrade which stopped ivtv, ndiswrapper and the nVidia modules loading. Now I'm trying to reinstall, I get stuck on such a trivial matter.

reddazz · 11-29-2005, 06:29 AM

If you can get the kernel source rpm for your current kernel, I am sure you can rebuild it and get the right kernel devel package for your system.

dingaling · 11-29-2005, 08:49 AM

Well it just so happens that I'm familiar with MythTV. I'm the creator of MythDora and if you wanted to try it out, be my guest.

Yes you could drop down to a lower kernel and get that kernel-devel if you wanted. Then you could build whatever you wanted. I'm a firm believer of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it".