I am running VMware Server 1.0.3 in openSUSE 10.2 and noticed the following warning during the running of vmware-config.pl. Everything is working so I don't know how important it is.
Building the vmnet module.
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.18.8-0.5-default/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.18.8-0.5-obj/x86_64/default'
make -C ../../../linux-2.6.18.8-0.5 O=../linux-2.6.18.8-0.5-obj/x86_64/default modules
CC /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/driver.o
CC /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/hub.o
CC /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/userif.o
CC /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/netif.o
CC /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/bridge.o
CC /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/procfs.o
CC /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/smac_compat.o
SHIPPED /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/smac_linux.x86_64.o
LD /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/vmnet.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST
WARNING: could not find /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/.smac_linux.x86_64.o.cmd for /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/smac_linux.x86_64.o
CC /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/vmnet.mod.o
LD /tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only/vmnet.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.18.8-0.5-obj/x86_64/default'
cp -f vmnet.ko ./../vmnet.o
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmnet-only'
The module loads perfectly in the running kernel.
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