[KLUG Members] new kernel

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>The SuSE stock kernel is usaully pretty realiable. Its when you roll
>your own that you'll start to run into problems.
>The module problem might be as simple as in alias in the modules.conf
>in etc. I had this problem when the kernel changed a module name from
>rtl8139 to 8139too. I added an alias for 8139too and it fixed the
>problemo.
>Im not sure what your problem with VMWare is but I have run VMWare on
>SuSE 7.1. Are you saying that it ran before but not now?
>I wish I could help more. Im a SuSE fan.
>>Also my modules for vmware won't start either, and they won't start
>>using my original kernel 2.4.0.
>>Sep  5 14:09:46 linux modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module vmnet1

VMware modules are kernel specific.  You need to re-run the vmware config perl
script when/if you change kernel versions.  Also if your using a 2.4.x make sure
you have a recent version of VMware or you will have problems building the
modules.

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