[CentOS] Getting and installing kernel source for 2.6.9-42.ELsmp

[Matt Hyclak]

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.src.rpm
>    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

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