On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 03:42:13PM -0500, Charles E Campbell Jr enlightened us:
I was able to get the original 4.4 kernel from
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4.4/os/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-42.EL.src.rpm
using Phillip R. Shaffner's advice.
However, rpm -i kernel-2.6.9-42.EL.src.rpm yielded no driver source anywhere under /usr/src ; in particular, no arcnet source.
There should have been tarballs and config files in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES, unless you've modified your rpm macros to point to a different %_top
So, I tried Seth Bardash's advice to use up2date:
up2date --get-source kernel
This yielded a number of fetches, but terminated with
An HTTP error occurred: URL: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/updates/i386//SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL... Status Code: 404 Error Message: Not Found
No driver source present afterwards, either, anywhere under /usr/src.
Note: An exploded source tree is not required to build kernel modules
against
the currently in-use kernel.
That's basically what I want to do -- just build the arcnet code and insmod it.
So, what am I doing wrong? How do I get that source?
Have you looked at http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel?
Matt