Building and Running new kernel modules in an x86 pc

[gnvrece]

Hello all,

I am new to linux and i am sorry if i posted a silly question.

I have an x86 pc and installed lucid these are the details of my distribution version
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS"

i am trying to build a kernel module i am getting the following error

gcc -Wall -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -I/usr/src/linux/include -D__SMP__ -DSMP -DMODVERSIONS -include /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h -O2 -I.. -M *.c > .depend
cc1: error: /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory
main.c:25:26: error: linux/config.h: No such file or directory

Can somebody help me how to build kernel modules

[JohnGraham]

Have a read of this book. It's very good, and of course covers how to build modules.

[Segfault]

Methinks you need to enable CONFIG_MODVERSIONS in kernel conf and modversions.h will be created during kernel build.

[coopstah13]

also, make sure you have installed kernel headers package for your running kernel