On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 9:33 pm, in message <200508311133.35758.michael@kropfberger.com>, michael@kropfberger.com wrote: before doing all of this, I installed the kernel sources, and compiled them by "make all", but I didn't install it, neither the new modules...
/tmp/vmware-config3/vmnet-only/userif.c:156: warning: 'verify_area' is deprecated (declared at include/asm/uaccess.h:105) /tmp/vmware-config3/vmnet-only/userif.c:157: warning: 'verify_area' is deprecated (declared at include/asm/uaccess.h:105) /tmp/vmware-config3/vmnet-only/userif.c: In function 'VNetCopyDatagramToUser': /tmp/vmware-config3/vmnet-only/userif.c:563: error: implicit declaration of function 'skb_copy_datagram' make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config3/vmnet-only/userif.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config3/vmnet-only] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.13-rc6-git13-4' make: *** [vmnet.ko] Error 2 make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmnet-only' Unable to build the vmnet module.
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I used http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-any-any-update93.tar.gz and it compiles guaranteed on beta3 as I am running it. You do not need to compile all the kernel sources, but you must run make oldconfig ; prepare-all tar -zxf *gz cd vmware-any-any-update93 ./runme.pl Andreas