From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N0FWA-0003uK-7x for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:16:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4E6E5E0603; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:15:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f174.google.com (mail-yx0-f174.google.com [209.85.210.174]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3241AE0603 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:15:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe4 with SMTP id 4so4310107yxe.32 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:15:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=BQPxFDNQ70adIIufGh6wbPFbwKFdw+QE4ZuI4Ha0alg=; b=LinMP/+3KfvLk75EmrVse0sgwgL3fTfxW//evB/YpvWo9WMDusPNy5UEOL3vrPMBpy l/l9Gpp9F6FPyi4eJQor1yt18klSE7epTLiJPJGwkjiBHGe34xtOsIbqRygxoqsk2mde yd3S+wJSEABMECn1S4RGxSfmdih9wrMNwK1gw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=QbbRsHFIVLxm5eOQBzfZDy28LzDSF7IEbnr1jdXi+WY1I4t5gxLWmUFxnMWDePZQKM kG3udQCv5QXL4gfPWONNqiyoTvWZxoEWkGpdWSAabiFBG+OKAaMzGVjlCVt0Rq8gyvB8 R39vqfcdX9YPRmbX6brf0Bdvjna+rZ19Yd0+Y= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.150.233.5 with SMTP id f5mr10588892ybh.309.1256048145748; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:15:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200910192221.26905.jcunning@cunning.ods.org> References: <200910192221.26905.jcunning@cunning.ods.org> Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:15:45 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 94a00aec5bdcbd3b Message-ID: <58965d8a0910200715k1ab3301fq976cccd6f591c053@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to build vmware-modules for kernel 2.6.30 From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 00f6508c-a579-4ad3-bf9b-408cf1221d66 X-Archives-Hash: f7f6fc029fbdff8b3c1e864ee4d5e1b9 On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Jim Cunning wrote: > I upgraded to kernel 2.6.30 and now cannot build the vmware kernel- > modules-1.0.0.15-r2 that I need for vmware-workstation-5.5.9. I've seen > references on google searches that kernel-modules-1.0.0.25 will work for > vmware-5.3 up to vmware-6.something. > > vmware-workstation-5.5.9 seems to require *only* vmware-modules-1.0.0.15. Is > there a way I can change this and rebuild both vmware and its kernel modules? You could perhaps emerge the newer modules with --nodeps and see if it works. You might have to put the old vmware-modules package into package.provided so emerge doesn't complain about it. There are patches to supposedly make it work (it requires patching your kernel as well as your vmware-module sources): http://www.insecure.ws/2009/04/21/vmware-specific-specific-55x-and-kernel-2629 Other possible actions would be to go back to older kernel or upgrade to newer vmware-workstation. :) Good luck