Latest Dapper Kernel Patch - No Kernel Sources

[Peter Garrett]

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:52:49 -0400
"L. Mark Stone" <lmstone at rnome.com> wrote:

> I'm a newbie to Ubuntu but not to Linux.
> 
> Running Dapper and have now gone through two kernel updates
> unsuccessfully.  Why?  Because Ubuntu does not release updated
> kernel-sources packages concurrently with a new kernel.
> 
> As a result, software like VMware-Player is broken under the new kernel,
> until the new kernel-sources packages are released.
> 
> May I suggest that new kernel and kernel-source packages going forward
> be released simultaneously, please?

Install the appropriate ( optional ) metapackage for your architecture
For instance:

Install  vmware-player-kernel-modules

> 
> This would save me a lot of time.

Installing the package above will save you even more :)
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
> 
> P.S.  I have not filed a bug report since I don't consider this a bug.
> If anyone has suggestions for a better place to report this issue,
> please let me know.

Maybe you don't need to ...

 $ apt-cache search vmware-player
vmware-player - Free virtual machine player from VMware
vmware-player-kernel-modules - vmware-player kernel module dependency
package vmware-player-kernel-modules-2.6.15-23 - vmware-player modules for
Linux (kernel 2.6.15) 

 *  vmware-player-kernel-source - Source for the
vmware-player-kernel drivers. 

vmware-player-kernel-modules-2.6.15-25 
vmware-player modules for Linux (kernel 2.6.15)

So you could grab the source package ( *)if you are in a hurry, and roll
your own modules using linux-headers-$(uname -r)

$ dpkg -l linux-headers-2.6.15-26 | grep linux
ii  linux-headers-2.6.15-26 2.6.15-26.44   Header files related to Linux
kernel version 2.6.15

Peter