Noisy fan

[Steve Anderson]

>
>
>>
>>
>>I just installed linux on last sunday with your helps on my Sony desktop 
>>machine. I noticed that the machine fan is always on when i run on linux OS, 
>>So, I want to a site and downloaded the file to install the fan driver for 
>>linux. I got the following error message when I issue "make".
>>
>>cc -Wall -O2 -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -c fan.c -o fan.o
>>In file included from fan.c:25:
>>/usr/include/linux/modversions.h:1:2: #error Modules should never use 
>>kernel-headers system headers,
>>/usr/include/linux/modversions.h:2:2: #error but headers from an appropriate 
>>kernel-source
>>make: *** [fan.o] Error 1
>>
First you must have the kernel-source-xxx.rpm installed.

The header files should should bein /usr/src/linux/include/linux.
I don't know if this location differs among distributions.

In the Makefile there should be an INCLUDEDIR=/usr/src/linux/include/linux.

Steve Anderson