vmware compiling error

[nizam]

i get error like this



Extracting the sources of the vmmon module.

Building the vmmon module.

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.20-BT-PwnSauce-NOSMP/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.20'
Makefile:1: warning: NUL character seen; rest of line ignored
Makefile:2: warning: NUL character seen; rest of line ignored
Makefile:3: warning: NUL character seen; rest of line ignored
Makefile:4: warning: NUL character seen; rest of line ignored
Makefile:5: warning: NUL character seen; rest of line ignored
Makefile:6: warning: NUL character seen; rest of line ignored
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Makefile:249: warning: NUL character seen; rest of line ignored
Makefile:250: warning: NUL character seen; rest of line ignored
Makefile:251: warning: NUL character seen; rest of line ignored
Makefile:252: warning: NUL character seen; rest of line ignored
Makefile:253: warning: NUL character seen; rest of line ignored
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `modules'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.20'
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only'
Unable to build the vmmon module.

[nizam]

plz someone help me i get error while installing paralles too plz

[aliov]

you have the 2.6.20 kernel wish is not the default Slack kernel,so when you configure and compile it have you did make headers_install to the install the needed header file ,for the moment the header files installed are the 2.4.x.

[nizam]

thnx for the reply
i used that come with backtrack 2
do i need to recompile it ??

[aliov]

No you don't have, please could you give me exactly from where you get vmmon just to download and compile it on one of our machines (please the same version as you) , in case this will go without problem so we can start thinking about some missing modules / header file version !

Cheers,
Ali.

[nizam]

i downloaded it from piratebay.org
is there any problem with my kernal i get the same error while compiling ndiswrapper too

[aliov]

Ah yes,you have a problem in your kernel,since the compiling of ndiswrapper is very easy and very rare to have a problem,so you miss something please make sure that you have the kernel source in /usr/src/linux ,and go there and do
make headers_install.

that's very clear that you have a kernel problem ,since the compilation for me went without any problem

Cheers,
Ali