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when install lan card in fedora 5, display message
" source kernal not found" stop.
plz help but this topic

On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:58:01 -0700, sajju wrote:

> when install lan card in fedora 5, display message
> " source kernal not found" stop.
> plz help but this topic

Linux uses loadable modules to extend the kernel for different hardware.

Fedora uses a hardware detector called Kudzu at boot time, which should
automate much of the process.

Your message suggests that the installation routine for your hardware has
been called, but cannot complete because you need a copy of the kernel
source code on the machine to help the installer work out where to plug
things in.

Most Linux installations have a "package manager" to help you install
software, and you will be able to use that to add the kernel sources to
your system. I've lost track of whether fedora uses yum or rpm or some
graphical tool to do it now, and in any case fedora 5 is a little out of
date, fedora 7 is out and about so you will have to be a bit careful
reading on-line advice to make sure it applies to your system.

There is a LOT of documentation at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
including http://docs.fedoraproject.org/drafts...e-en/ch-intro-
packaging.html about package managers. But it will be heavy reading for
someone whose first language is not english.

You might want to join a local user group, I find they can be very
helpful, and fun. Here is a list of most of them: http://www.linux.org/
groups/

You may do better with a Fedora-specific group: alt.os.linux.redhat is
the closest I could find. Or with a Fedora forum: http://
www.fedoraforum.org/ or http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...umdisplay.php?
forumid=35 spring to mind. But there are others in other languages too.
A friend of mine gets all her help from a portugese-language forum in
Brazil

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate is a good place to find



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Bob Harvey OETKB