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

Wed Dec 6 19:03:28 UTC 2006
Charles E Campbell Jr <charles.e.campbell at nasa.gov>

Seth Bardash wrote:

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
>>[mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Charles E Campbell
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>>Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 10:01 AM
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>>Subject: [CentOS] Getting kernel source for 2.6.9-42.ELsmp
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>>Hello!
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>>I need to get an arcnet device driver up and running.  Normally it 
>>appears to be distributed with linux, but not installed.  So, 
>>I need to 
>>compile and install it, naturally.
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>>So, where is the kernel souce for 2.6.9-42.ELsmp?  I can find kernel
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>>source for 2.6.9.
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>The kernel source for building the kernel is in the SRPM's directory.
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>The original install kernel source is in
>./4.4/os/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-42.EL.src.rpm
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Would you please tell me more?  While on the computer with Centos:

cd  /usr/src/redhat/SRPMS
ls  (shows empty directory)

Trying Redhat:

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core
has a "4" directory, not a 4.4

Thank you,
Charles Campbell