VMware Workstation Module Compilation (etch)

[Kenneth Jacker <khj@be.cs.appstate.edu>]

Has anyone successfully compiled the required modules for 'VMware
Workstation' under Debian/etch?  Though I've been able to do this on
two Ubuntu systems, I keep getting errors during the installation
process on my 'etch' systems:

    The directory of kernel headers (version @@VMWARE@@ UTS_RELEASE)
    does not match your running kernel (version 2.6.18-3-686).  Even
    if the module were to compile successfully, it would not load into
    the running kernel.

Apparently something isn't right in the installed header files:

     root:/usr/src# ls -l
     total 12
     lrwxrwxrwx  1 root src    26 2007-02-16 17:13 linux -> linux-headers-2.6.18-3-686/
     drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 2007-02-16 17:12 linux-headers-2.6.18-3/
     drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 2007-02-16 17:13 linux-headers-2.6.18-3-686/
     drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 2007-01-27 19:02 linux-kbuild-2.6.18/

Here's some more info:

     root:/usr/src# uname -a
     Linux foobar 2.6.18-3-686 #1 SMP Mon Dec 4 16:41:14 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
    
     root:/# cat /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h
     #define LINUX_VERSION_CODE 132626
     #define KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) (((a) << 16) + ((b) << 8) + (c))

I downloaded and manually installed this as well:

     linux-headers-2.6.18-3_2.6.18-7_i386.deb

but it made no difference ...


Anyone have any ideas?

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Prof Kenneth H Jacker       khj@cs.appstate.edu
Computer Science Dept       www.cs.appstate.edu/~khj
Appalachian State Univ
Boone, NC  28608  USA