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 -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263