As there is almost always a need to apply the most recent patchset to releases of VMware vmmon/vmnet to support the latest kernels, it might be useful to document a process for making this (relatively..) easy: VMMON and VMNET are picked up during the vmware-modconfig… command, from /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source, and this process expects to find vmmon.tar and vmnet.tar … Continue reading →
I originally wrote an article on cross-compiling for ARM systems, some time ago – before I got my first Raspberry Pi – and this is a more up-to-date version. This is how I cross-compile ARM kernels, on x86_64. There are – of course – other ways of doing this, but this works, for me.. The following info … Continue reading →
Running Fedora 17, you expect certain features to be a bit ‘bleeding edge’, but sometimes it seems things are getting more difficult, rather than – as it should be – easier? An example in point.. Why on earth did someone decide good old eth0 was not good enough? Now I have ‘p20p1‘ instead! I used to think … Continue reading →