Tom Lanyon wrote:

Hi all,

Hi Tom.

First issue was trying to install the openipmi RPM from the CD that came with the SunFires, this RPM installs the source for the openipmi kernel drivers and then builds them as kernel modules. First I had to get the kernel source installed (i used the kernel SRPM to install, then did an rpmbuild to create the patched source directory), however I'm now receiving a whole bunch of errors whilst trying to compile the IPMI driver 'ipmi_devintf_src.c' file because of what looks to be incompatibilities with the kernel.

If all you needed to do was build kernel module(s), installing the appropriate kernel-devel package (kernel-devel, kernel-smp-devel, etc.) would be alot less work than building from the SRPM.

Cheers.

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