[CentOS] rebuilding kernel modules issues

[Akemi Yagi]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 8:53 AM, Kenneth Burgener
<kenneth at mail1.ttak.org> wrote:
> I have a Tyan S3870 (K855A) motherboard which I would like to perform a burn
> in test with.  lm_sensors needs a kernel module compiled to be support this
> motherboard's sensors.
>
> The instructions, for compiling the module, by tyan
> (ftp://ftp.tyan.com/software/lms/3870.sensors.conf) match closely with the
> instructions I found here
> (http://www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_centos).

If you must rebuild the kernel or kernel module, I recommend you do it
the "CentOS way" by following the CentOS wiki articles:

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel
and
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BuildingKernelModules

Akemi