On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Jason Straight wrote:
> Yeah, as a matter of fact it fails building, what I mean is that I have been
> running the same kernel with vmware for quite a few weeks now. Something else
> just caused it to die unexpectedly.
>
> When compiling the vmware mods this happens:
>
The "Extra tokens at end of #endif" aren't fatal to the build, just the
vmware people forgetting to comment out the text after #endif.
> Unable to make a vmnet module that can be loaded in the running kernel:
> insmod: a module named vmnet already exists
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Your vmnet module is loaded when it tries to load the new one, try
'/etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware stop' then 'lsmod' to make sure vmnet is gone
before running vmware-config.pl.
-dwild
