Well Renee Klawitter helped me,
and youre right, it was the patch, its all working now!
thnx for your help all.
Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards,
Martijn Marsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
System Engineer
AFAB Geldservice B.V.
Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:
I'm not currently running 2.6.14 but I am running VMWare Workstation
5 installed on Debian Testing/Etch running on an AMD64 machine. Have you
gotten the
vmware-any-any-update94.tar.gz update and installed it?
Regards,
Jeremy
Martijn Marsman wrote:
Hello list :D
Iam installing VMware for linux on my Debian 3.1 machine
uname -a --> Linux Covenant 2.6.14-686 #1 PREEMPT Mon Nov 7 16:59:27
CET 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
i have installed it before and it worked perfect, but now on my new
system, it refuses to compile a module (vmnet). the output is this:
/
Extracting the sources of the vmnet module.
Building the vmnet module.
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.14-686/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD
SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.14'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only/driver.o
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only/vnet.h:14,
from /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only/vnetInt.h:10,
from /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only/driver.c:40:
/tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only/vm_atomic.h:54:5: warning: "_MSC_VER"
is not defined
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only/vm_oui.h:13,
from /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only/vnetInt.h:11,
from /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only/driver.c:40:
/tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only/vm_basic_asm.h:48:5: warning:
"_MSC_VER" is not defined
/tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only/driver.c: In function
`VNetProcessOwnsPort':
/tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only/driver.c:1698: error: structure has no
member named `max_fds'
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only/driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.14'
make: *** [vmnet.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only'
Unable to build the vmnet module.
For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems,
please
visit our Web site at
"http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html"; and
"http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/prebuilt_modules_linux.html";.
Execution aborted.
Covenant:/home/tijn/vmware-distrib#
/
i dont know what _MSC_VER is, or what it does.
is this a common problem, did more people had this issue with a newer
kernel?
Thanks in advance,
Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards,
Martijn Marsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
System Engineer
AFAB Geldservice B.V.
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