[olug] RH upgrade

[Nick Walter]

In Red Hat, /usr/src/linux is a link, not an actual directory.  The Red Hat
upgrader may not have deleted and updated that link for you.  A quick way to
check would be to ls -al in /usr/src.  If it's the old RH6.2 link, it will
be a link to /usr/src/linux-2.2.14 and if it's the new RH7.1 link it will be
a link to /usr/src/linux-2.4.2

If the link is wrong, lots of things get flaky, so it might be worth
checking.

Nick Walter
Interact Incorporated

-----Original Message-----
From: Jazz Lover [mailto:jzlvr at home.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 4:52 PM
To: olug at bstc.net
Subject: [olug] RH upgrade


Hello everyone.

I just now have a chance to follow up on this upgrade issue of mine.  But
before I do, I want to make a sidebar comment.

In the past, on other mailing list, or Usenet groups that I've posted to, if
a person makes a comment that the majority does not agree with, then you
might as will drop off the list right now, because you've just black balled
yourself.  From that point on, it's useless to even post something.  They'll
either ignore you, or worse, treat you like a complete idiot. Saying things
like RTFM, and just giving you a bunch of garbage.  But I must say.  This
list is not like that at all.  I stated my opinion, and didn't get beat up
for it.  Thanks.

Now for the upgrade.

I am not doing an new install as someone questioned, but I am doing an
upgrade.  I am currently using RH 6.2, and I am trying to upgrade to 7.1 via
ftp.

I did finally get the upgrade to work.  One mistake that I made, was that I
thought that I was upgrading to 7.1, but infact I was upgrading to 7.0.  I
had attempted last winter to upgrade when 7.0 first got released.  But
because of the problems that I was having I gave up.  I thought that I had
downloaded a 7.1 boot image a while back.  But I realized that I did not and
I was in fact using the 7.0 image that I had originally downloaded.  So I
did get a new image and that made all the difference.  As Jon said "you
really need to look at a current distro or at least compile a current
kernel.  It can fix everything for you."  Well that did allow me to be able
to do the upgrade.  Now I have a new issue.

I'm having problems compiling the drivers for my nic cards.  The
instructions say to use /usr/include/linux/modversions.h. But I get an error
message: " #error Modules should never use kernel-headers system headers,
#error but headers from an appropriate kernel source".

At first I thought that I didn't get the headers during the upgrade, so I
redid the upgrade making sure that I got the headers.  But I still got the
same error message.  I realized that the modversions.h file actually
contained the error message.  I tried pointing the compiler to the headers
in the src directory, but now I just get a bunch of error messages.  Most of
which are:
"dereferencing pointer to incomplete type".  I'm not up on my C, so I have
no idea what these error messages are, but I think my only answer is to do a
complete install.  As I said before, I was doing an upgrade.  I'll give a
complete install a try and see how it comes out.

Thanks for all of the help and suggestions.


Daryl Rose
jzlvr at home.com




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