From suse-linux-e-return@suse.com  Tue Oct  2 12:18:37 2001
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 02:18:21 +0200
From: Jostein Berntsen <jostber@online.no>
Subject: RE: [SLE] vmware express with 2.4.9
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>> I have trouble configuring vmware express after installing the 2.4.9 SuSE
>> kernel.
>> Has anyone managed to make it work?
>>
>> Running vmware-config.pl it errors out with the messages I have attached. I
>> saw the thread regarding the 2.4.7 kernel. Is there a similar patch for the
>> 2.4.9?


>This sounds very familiar. Been there, done that. :-)
>
>Use the vmmon patches for 2.4.7 even though you have the 2.4.9 kernel. You're
>actually fixing vmmon, not the kernel itself. You'll get some warning messages
>but it will build.
>
>I also had to comment out the line in vmware-config.pl that actually builds
>vmmon there, so that I could run vmmon after manually building the patched
>version (just "make" in its directory). You also have to manually copy the
>new vmmon binary to the appropriate location under /lib/modules/... (look
>for the other VMWare modules, and put vmmon in the same directory).
>
>If this doesn't get you from point A to point B, e-mail me off-list and I'll
>send more details plus my patched vmware-config.pl file.
>
>Scott


Your instructions were the right medicine for my vmware and it is 
now happily running with the 2.4.9 kernel. Thanks alot!

I used the files in

vmware-ws-1142-for-2.4.7.tar.gz

and also did make in vmnet-only dir and ran  runtime.pl in addition to 
vmmon.

Jostein