On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 01:02:45AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 05:26:27AM +0300, Alex Shnitman wrote: > > You have to have the kernel source, or at least the headers part of > > it, in /usr/src/linux. Sometimes that's not enough (I'm not familiar > > with the vmware Makefile so I can't tell for vmware) and you have to > > do this: > > cd /usr/include > > mv linux linux.old > > ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux . > > mv asm asm.old > > ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm . > > Then you should email the authors and tell them not to insist on > having exact kernel headers in /usr/include/linux. It's an assumption > which is not true on Debian GNU/Linux. They should allow you to specify > the location. You should not (and should not need to) do the above > hack to your /usr/include directory.
And you don't have to (actully the asm headers aren't used by vmware). I found the following information in the debian-user archives dated 8 Aug 1999 from Alexander Stavitsky, titled "Re: VMware for Debian": In driver-only/Makefile, change the INCLUDE line to read: INCLUDE = -I$(TOPDIR)/include -I$(TOPDIR)/common -I$(TOPDIR)/linux \ -I$(TOPDIR)/export/include /I$/usr/src/linux/include In vmnet-only/Makefile, add an INCLUDE line: INCLUDE = -I. -I/usr/src/linux/include Run make in each of these directories and then copy the vmmon-* and vmnet-* module files which are created to the vmware top directory and run ./install.pl. It will correctly identify the modules and install them. It would be nice if vmware would include this information in their documentation (see http://www.vmware.com/support/vmodules.html). I'll even cc: this message to them, although though they "officially" support only Red Hat, Suse and Caldera. Vmware works fine with Debian. Another point to mention: The vmnet module will not compile with the current gcc 2.95 in potato. Use gcc272 instead (change the CC = line in Makefile from gcc to gcc272). Bob -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
