So I did something kinda stupid today, I upgraded to a new kernel (2.6.24.4-64.fc8), and in the process of trying to get my vmware modules recompiled and my nvidia driver reinstalled I accidentally deleted the kernel source pertaining to my current running kernel. I managed to get my video driver installed before that, so I at least have X running, but I want to get my vmware modules compiled and can't do that without the kernel source. Does anyone know how I can get that kernel source back (it was located in /var/src/2.6.24.4-64.fc8)? Thanks in advance.

I'm currently running Fedora 8 32-bit with the aforementioned kernel (2.6.24.4-64.fc8) on an Intel Core 2 Duo 2.33GHz, 4GB DDR2800 RAM, and if you need the output of various commands or something like that, let me know. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-jalsk

Reinstall the kernel-devel rpm.

Brian

Try 'rpm -qa | grep kernel' to see the full name if is still filed.
If 'kernel-devel-2.6.24.4-64.fc8 RPM for i686' you can get it here:
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/fedora/....fc8.i686.html
or better: ask yum to install it.

Awesome. Thanks. It worked. I ended up removing the package from the rpm database using 'rpm -e --justdb --nodeps kernel-devel-2.6.24.4-64.fc8' and then ran 'yum install kernel-devel-2.6.24.4-64.fc8'. Now I just have to figure out why my vmware modules aren't compiling! Thanks again!

-jalsk

Have you the latest vmware-any-any-tools?

Brian