[ANNOUNCE] Release of Dell OpenManage ServerAdministrator 5.0

[Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com]

You seem to be confusing the kernel source with the kernel src.rpm,
which are two different things.  You need the kernel-devel package
installed for your running kernel.
--
Michael 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Best [mailto:mbest at pendragon.org] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 4:07 PM
> To: linux-poweredge-Lists
> Cc: Brown, Michael E
> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Release of Dell OpenManage 
> ServerAdministrator 5.0
> 
> Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com wrote:
> > That doesn't actually fix the problem, as the ipmi driver 
> installed in 
> > your kernel will be too old. What you need to do is install 
> the kernel 
> > source for your distro. For RHEL4, I believe this would be the 
> > kernel-devel package. Then you can either manually 'dkms build ...' 
> > and 'dkms install ...' the driver, or remove and reinstall the RPM 
> > which will do the same thing.
> > --
> > Michael
> 
> Where is the dkms tool expecting to find the source?
> 
> The kernel source comes out of the src.rpm into the 
> /usr/src/Redhat/BUILD/ directory by default, and then I'd 
> have to move it to /usr/src/linux or /usr/src/linux-2.6
> 
> Also some of these machines don't have development tools 
> installed, is there a way to turn this into a package?
> 
> -Mike
>