[olug] RH upgrade

[Jazz Lover]

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