On 12/14/06, Charles E Campbell Jr <charles.e.campbell at nasa.gov> wrote: > Hello! > > Thank you for your help! Here's what works for me (thanks to Seth > Bardash, Nick Webb, and Alan Cudmore), although there's a caveat: > > 1. yum install kernel-devel > 2. Obtain kernel-2.6.9-42.EL.src.rpm (which can be obtained from > http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/centos/4/os/SRPMS > > Now, for the caveat: this kernel-2.6.9-42.EL.src.rpm, NOT > kernel-2.6.9-42.ELsmp.src.rpm, > which I still haven't found. This means that the four-cpu machine > needs to be brought up as a single-cpu machine. There is no src.rpm for the smp setup, as it's all the same source. Look at the specfile in the rpm to see how it gets built. also. -> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel > 3. Install kernel SRPM: > rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.9-42.EL.src.rpm > > 4. rpmbuild -bp --target $(uname -m) kernel.2.6.9-42.EL.src.rpm > > 5. (kernel source is now in /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9/linux-2.6.9) > cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9/linux-2.6.9 > > Now, for the steps I used to install the arcnet driver, which is why I > needed to do the above: > > 6. make menuconfig > (enable arcnet modules) > Device Drivers:Networking Support:Network Device Support:Arcnet Devices > (press "M", get another menu, "M"-ize the selections there) > > 7. make > > 8. Insert the modules into the current kernel: > > cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9/linux-2.6.9/drivers/net/arcnet > insmod arcnet.ko > insmod arc-rawmode.ko > insmod com20020.ko > insmod com20020-pci.ko node=3 device=arc0 timeout=3 backplane=0 > clockp=0 clockm=0 > insmod rfc1201.ko > ifconfig arc0 up > > If anyone has some more hints about how to get ...ELsmp... instead of > just EL, I'd appreciate it! > > Hmm, Nick Webb said something about enabling SMP support, so perhaps > I'll take another look > for it in menuconfig... > > Thank you, > Charles Campbell > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell