Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2441 mails)

[Ken Schneider <suse-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 18:09 -0400, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Thursday 16 June 2005 06:05 pm, James Knott wrote:
> > Bruce Marshall wrote:
> > > On Thursday 16 June 2005 05:41 pm, James Knott wrote:
> > >>I'm trying to install VMWare Workstation for Linux, on my SuSE 9.3
> > >>system, but I'm getting errors, when it's trying to build new modules.
> > >>I have the latest kernel and kernel-source.  Here's the output of the
> > >>relevant part.  I've also shown the contents of the /usr/src/linux.
> > >>
> > >>Any ideas?
> > >>
> > >>tnx jk
> > >
> > > You probably need the infamous any-any patch.
> > >
> > > vmware-any-any-update90.tar.gz
> > >
> > > I'd google for it...   I can't find a url for the patch.
> >
> > The fix provided by James Wright seems to have done the trick.
> >
> > tnx
> 
> You must have a later version than 4.5.  I couldn't get it to work without 
> it....
> 
> 
> 
Download the 4.5.2 version, it is what I use along with the any-any
patch and it works just fine.

-- 
Ken Schneider
UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998

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