kernel-devel - How to install after FC5 installation?

[Anne]

We installed FC5 on a Sun U40.

The NVIDIA ethernet modules on the motherboard do not
work, unless you compile chipset drivers. For this
we need either kernel-devel (or kernel-src?) rpm -qa
shows that only kernel-smp is installed.

We do not have a working ethernet connection, so I cannot
use yum. I looked through the 5 iso CDs under /cdrom/Fedora/RPMS
for the kernel-devel rpms.

There is
kernel-xen0-devel
kernel-xenU-devel

but not kernel-devel

Is there a differenr rpm I should be looking for, or is there a way
to install this via a different application?

I tried Add/Remove Software but the popup comes up "Unable to
retrieve software information".

Any advice appreciated.

Anne

[fcn00b]

just do "yum install kernel-devel" or you can download it manually and install it with the package manager.

[Anne]

Thanks but we do not have a network on this machine. The yum options
in the man page don't list how to just download the rpm.

Is there another command to download from the repository?

FC5 Newbie

[Mess]

so you can download rpm from somewhere like:
http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/se...y=kernel-devel
or search googel
and copy it to your machine and install...

[markkuk]

Originally Posted by Anne

For this
we need either kernel-devel (or kernel-src?) rpm -qa
shows that only kernel-smp is installed.

Then you need kernel-smp-devel, not kernel-devel. It's on the CDs, just look more carefully.

Originally Posted by Anne

I
I tried Add/Remove Software but the popup comes up "Unable to
retrieve software information".

It's a front-end to yum and needs a network connection.

[Anne]

Thanks. Got the kernel-smp-devel. Now it's complaining about needing
/usr/sbin/hardlink which is from kernel-utilities.

rpmfind only has this for FC3. Maybe this should be on the CDs also??

I installed kernel-smp-devel with --nodeps and figured out that I could run

sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run --kernel-name=`uname -r` \
--kernel-source-path=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.15-1.2054-FC5-smp-i686

but it has problems building the kernel module. Maybe NVIDIA isn't ready
for FC5??

[markkuk]

Hardlink is a separate package in FC5, there's no "kernel-utils".

[Anne]

Yhanks for the hardlink info.

I just read that the NVIDIA drivers install in kernel 2133 (we have 2.6.15-1.2054).

So I'll get those rpms and start over.

Sure is nice when you have a network.

[Anne]

Unfortunately http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html had the kernel src rpm for
2133, but not the kernel rpm.

I had to punt and install Red Hat Enterprise Linux for now because we had
to get the machine up. Thank you for suggestions and help.

Anne