Installing new kernel very often brings a lot of joy and excitement for a user - 2.6.24 was not an exception. VMware didn’t compile, throwing nice and friendly Unable to build the vmmon module error in my face. Don’t we just love that?
OK, here’s the deal to make it work:
- Download vmware-any-any-update-116.tgz archive and extract it somewhere
- In terminal (as root), go to that somewhere directory, and fire up
./runme.pl. Answer YES to all prompts - Last prompt would ask to run
./vmware-config.pl- go for it, and configure VMware as usual - Done
I’m not going to get into details what that patch actually does, why, where, who, what for, etc.. It just works for me, and I hope it would work for you as well. However, I’d really like to say big fat thank you to someone who actually did it and let it free over the internet. Thank you! :)
Source: Peter Velichkovâ??s Blog
PS. Other thing which also doesn’t work in 2.6.24 is ipw3945 wireless driver. I don’t know the solution yet, hence I’m forced to use bad and ugly iwl3945 driver for now… :/
