On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 02:59:33PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
cl@isbd.net wrote:
[...] I was wondering how other people deal with them. When you run the vmware upgrade to build vmware for the new kernel
I deal with that by not using vmware.
So what do you use instead? (I have an occasional need to run an Access database, among other things)
[...] Building one of my required added modules (the drivers for the RTL8168 network on the MB) it creates the new module in /lib/modules/2.6.18/kernel/drivers/net because it uses 'uname -r' to get the kernel version. This doesn't work very well when you reboot - no network.
I'd hack its Makefile to stop it being so stupid and use a make variable for the target kernel version.
Yes, that's possible, I just wondered if there was a 'right' way to do it. Presumably in a while the RTL5168 will be supported by the standard kernel and I won't need the custom add-on.