Problem installing hpasm-7.0.0-21.rhel21.i386.rpm.

[Michael Garner_1]

This issue will be resolved by a new health application that will replace the existing health driver in the 3Q04. The health application is currently in early test cycles.

The information about the kernel being tainted by the current health driver is correct. Because the driver is not open source, Red Hat considers the installation of the health application as a taint on the kernel. If you look at lsmod, it will show tainted with the current hpasm driver.

Regards,
Michael Garner
Linux PSP Developer

[Brian Shepard]

Previous Linux admin installed a source driver and configured the kernel source accoring to HP documentation for NIC driver bcm5700-2.2.23-1.src.rpm.
HP documentation for NIC driver bcm5700-2.2.30-1.src.rpm is not correct. It says to do the following:

cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.9-e.35
make mrproper
make oldconfig
make dep

which created /lib/modules/2.4.9-e.35enterprise/build/include/linux/version.h with incorrect entry (#define UTS_RELEASE "2.4.9-e.35custom").

To correct the problem, I reconfigured the kernel source correctly as follows:

make mrproper
make -e KERNELRELEASE=`uname -r` oldconfig
make -e KERNELRELEASE=`uname -r` dep

which created /lib/modules/2.4.9-e.35enterprise/build/include/linux/version.h
with the correct entry ((#define UTS_RELEASE "2.4.9-e.35enterprise").

Now hpasm-7.0.0-21.rhel21.i386.rpm installs and runs without errors.

Case closed. Thanks to all who replied.

-Brian Shepard