Wasn't entirely clear to me how to do this so have put it here in case I need it again.
As a normal user retrieve ESRT2_Linux_v.11.02.0626.2008_2.zip from the intel server site (or as updated.)
Unzip it. Amongst other files there is a shim directory which contains
two subdirectories
viz
library and open_source
under library there are further subdirectories for various distributions and 32/64 bit (eg rhel4-64)
There should be two files Makefile and megasr-lib.a
in each of these directories.
From these and the source files in ../../open_source/ the module is
built.
Determine the kernel version to which you are updating.
eg
kernel-smp-2.6.9-78.0.8.EL
Install (as root) the corresponding kernel-smp-devel package
eg
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-78.0.8.EL
This will create the /lib/modules/2.6.9-78.0.8.ELsmp/updates
directory as well as installing the kernel headers in /usr/src/kernels
eg
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-78.0.8.EL-smp-x86_64
To build the module (as a normal user)
cd shim/library/rhel4-64 make -C/usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-78.0.8.EL-smp-x86_64 M=`pwd` modules
should create a number of files but the megasr.ko is the module file.
Copy this to /lib/modules/2.6.9-78.0.8.ELsmp/updates
sudo cp megasr.ko /lib/modules/2.6.9-78.0.8.ELsmp/updates
Then install the new kernel package
sudo rpm -i kernel-smp-2.6.9-78.0.8.EL.rpm
/sbin/mkinitrd should locate megasr.ko in
/lib/modules/2.6.9-78.0.8.ELsmp/updates
and add it to lib/ directory on the initrd image in
/boot/initrd-2.6.9-78.0.8.ELsmp.img
or will complain about not finding megasr.
(Incidentally will also strip -g megasr.ko)
I imagine should work for Fedora if the corresponding kernel versions match
rhel4 - 2.6.9 rhel5 - 2.6.18
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