On Sat, 11 Aug 2001 21:36:12 +0200 J-Scott@t-online.de (John Scott) wrote:
I've seen questions posted about using vmware with 2.4.7 kernels and several people say they've gotten them working. I can't get them to compile. I've downloaded the latest "mantel" SuSE kernel (in fact I've tried 2 different versions) ....
Any suggestions? Did anyone do anything different to make this work?
John, As I understand it, the problem is not fixed in any version of the kernel. You need the patch that you can find at : ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/vmware/vmmon-for-2.4.7-only.tar.gz You just put the patch in /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source, take a copy of the original vmmon.tar for backup (the new file works *only* with 2.4.7 and later), gunzip the patch and rename it vmmon.tar. vmware-config.pl should then work, - though some people report compilation warnings. The author of the patch is Petr Vandrovec and he says as follows : "It is completely untested whether compiled module works ok, as I have some patches which are incompatible with Linus's kernel, so I did not tested it yet. After change makes through to Alan's patches, you can be sure that I'll test it..." I have been using it every day since early July, and I have not had any problems. Regards, Geoff _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com