ramifications of using a stock kernel?

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On 14 May 2005, at 20:01, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:

> Apparently the FC kernels are all hacked/patched by Red Hat.  Thus  
> things
> like ndiswrapper won't compile against them.  I need two things that
> require a stock kernel from kernel.org:  ndiswrapper, and an  
> unofficial
> patch that makes my stupid Dell Inspiron 6000's DVD player use DMA.

Are you using FC3 or FC4T3? In the latter case, make sure you install  
the kernel-devel package before compiling ndiswrapper.