perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Andrew Sides <>]

Hello Mark,

        You should be able to find all of the perfSONAR web100 kernel rpms in 
this repository: http://software.internet2.edu/web100_kernel/. I believe this 
is the one you are looking for in particular (x86_64):

http://software.internet2.edu/web100_kernel/rpms/el6/x86_64/RPMS.main/kernel-devel-2.6.32-431.29.2.el6.aufs.web100.x86_64.rpm

As Christoph noted the CentOS kernel release is currently ahead of the 
perfSONAR web100 kernel release, which is why a yum update is pulling in a 
later version of the kernel-devel package. If you want to download and 
install this package using yum I believe you can just disable the CentOS 
repositories temporarily with a command like this:

yum install kernel-devel --disablerepo base,updates

This way yum will ignore the newer version from the CentOS repositories and 
pull in the older correct version from the web100 kernel repo.

Thanks,
Andrew Sides

On Nov 4, 2014, at 2:31 PM, Christoph Galuschka 
<>
 wrote:

> 
> 
> Am 04.11.2014 um 21:14 schrieb Mark Gardner:
>> Has anyone compiled the drivers for a Mellanox ConnectX-3 card
>> compatible with pS-Performance_Toolkit-3.4-FullInstall-x86_64.iso?
>> 
>> I downloaded the latest driver source from Mellaox but ./install.sh
>> complained that kernel-devel needs to be installed. Yum install
>> kernel-devel installs 2.6.32-504.e16 which does not solve the problem.
>> It looks like 2.6.32-431-29.2.el6.aufs.web100.x86_64 is the version
>> needed. Where can I get it?
> 
> I can at least answer your question re the kernel. The web100 kernel (and 
> its associated files)
> are still at the last kernel release of CentOS6.5. The CentOS mirrors 
> allready hold the new kernel
> of CentOS6.6 (-504) and its associated files. The new web100 kernel - based 
> on 504 - is currently in development. Once that kernel is in the web100 
> repo, your kernel-devel files will match the kernel.
> 
> cheers
> Christoph
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> Christoph Galuschka
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