Installing RPM

Hi;
I'm New at this, so bare with me please.
I have a P4P800 Mb in the CD that came with it I have a (RPM Driver for my
On Board GiGabit lan) so i'm trying to take it from their and install it. In
the ReadMe fil;e it say's to,(Make sure that the kernel source is installed
in;/usr/src/linux or /usr/src/linux-2.4.)
Can someone please tell me what this mean's in plan english.I can do
everthing else,but I just don't know what the (kernel source mean's)

Thank's
glen

On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 19:07:54 +0000 Glen Martin wrote:

> Hi;
> I'm New at this, so bare with me please.
> I have a P4P800 Mb in the CD that came with it I have a (RPM Driver for my
> On Board GiGabit lan) so i'm trying to take it from their and install it. In
> the ReadMe fil;e it say's to,(Make sure that the kernel source is installed
> in;/usr/src/linux or /usr/src/linux-2.4.)
> Can someone please tell me what this mean's in plan english.I can do
> everthing else,but I just don't know what the (kernel source mean's)
>
> Thank's
> glen

On your Redhat CD or even online you find a kernel-source-$verion.rpm
package. Install this package with rpm -ivh and you will find the kernel
source tree under /usr/src/linux-2.4.

Alexander


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