Ubuntu kernel 2.6.15-21-686/386
Alan McKinnon
alan at linuxholdings.co.za
Fri May 5 12:45:05 UTC 2006
On Friday 05 May 2006 10:11, Tim Frost wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 17:03 +0100, jweathers777 wrote:
> > I'm also experiencing this problem on my Dual Processor AMD
> > Opteron system.
> > It's a show stopper for me in terms of using Kubuntu in the
> > office right now because I need to run VMWare on my box and to
> > compile one its modules it requires the kernel headers for my
> > kernel and the kernel headers for 2.6.15-20 (the kernel that
> > appears to run albeit with a long pause while mounting the root
> > file system) don't appear in my Adept list.
>
> The kernel headers are named linux-headers-2.6.15-20-i686 or
> linux-headers-2.6.15-21-i686 (*not* kernel-headers-.....)
> If you do 'apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)' that *should*
> get the correct headers for the running kernel.
>
> you will also need build-essential (to get the compiler, etc)
Perhaps I'm missing something here, but why do you need the headers
from the _current_running_kernel?
For their actual intended purpose, that interface is not supposed to
change.
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Alan McKinnon
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