Fedora 18

Getting VMWare 9 to compile in fc18

After upgrading to Fedora 18, VMWare 9.0.1, you get and error that "Kernel headers for version 3.7.2-201.fc18.x86_64 were not found". VMWare will not compile because it cannot find the correct version.h file. Simple fix is to create a symlink and vmware will compile the needed modules.

First make sure that the compiler and header packages are installed.

sudo yum install gcc kernel-devel kernel-headers

The following command will create the link.

sudo ln -s /usr/src/kernels/$(uname -r)/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h /usr/src/kernels/$(uname -r)/include/linux/version.h

Now just start vmware and the modules will compile and install.

Issues with Wireless driver during suspend / resume

My wireless driver didn't suspend correctly and it acted bad when the system was resumed. I found the best solution for me was to have systemd unload the wireless module during suspend and reload during resume.

Find out what wireless driver you have, in my example it is going to be iwl4965. Replace iwl4965 in the wifi-sleep.service file with your actual driver.

#ethtool -i wlan0 | grep driver
  driver: iwl4965

#cd /etc/systemd/system

Create the following files: wifi-sleep.service

[Unit]
Description=deactivate / activate wireless modules
Before=sleep.target
StopWhenUnneeded=yes

[Service]
Type=oneshot
RemainAfterExit=yes
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/modprobe -r iwl4965
ExecStop=/usr/sbin/modprobe iwl4965

[Install]
WantedBy=sleep.target

You then need to enable the new scripts

systemctl enable wifi-sleep.service

To disable the service

systemctl disable wifi-sleep.service