[CentOS] rebuilding kernel modules issues

Thu Jun 12 16:24:51 UTC 2008
Kenneth Burgener <kenneth at mail1.ttak.org>

On 6/12/2008 10:11 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 8:53 AM, Kenneth Burgener
> <kenneth at mail1.ttak.org> wrote:
>> I have a Tyan S3870 (K855A) motherboard which I would like to perform a burn
>> in test with.  lm_sensors needs a kernel module compiled to be support this
>> motherboard's sensors.
>>
> If you must rebuild the kernel or kernel module, I recommend you do it
> the "CentOS way" by following the CentOS wiki articles:
> 
> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel
> and
> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BuildingKernelModules
> 
> Akemi


Thank you.  Your suggestion showed me the errors of my way.  Turns out I 
was missing a package.  I needed the "full kernel source" 
(kernel-2.6.18-53.el5.src.rpm).  :-)

Kenneth