[PlanetCCRMA] kernel source access

Rob Jackson robert.jackson@student.manchester.ac.uk
Fri Dec 8 08:32:00 2006


Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
[snip]
> So, it would be something like:
>   yum install kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2080.rrt.rhfc5.ccrma
> or the rdt version. 

That refused to do anything, as it said that package was already 
installed (which it was for the 2.6.18 FC5 kernel).

> If yum still refuses (it sometimes does not want to install older
> versions and there's no way around it - this will be fixed in fc6 by
> naming the kernel packages differently), you can just download the
> binary package and install it by hand. It is in the planetcore
> repository:
> http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/mirror/fedora/linux/planetcore/5/i386/
> 
> (install with "rpm -ivh", _NOT_ "rpm -Uvh")

This sorted it for me, and I now have a happily compiled and running 
wireless card module.

Thanks very much both of you for your help.

Rob