Thank you all for your help. 

I decided to go with Urs solution which worked
right out the box!

Thanks again

Fernando


On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 20:56 +0100, Urs Beyerle wrote:
> Fernando Rannou wrote:
> > Hi Mark and Akemi
> > thanks for your prompt responses.
> >
> > Right! The Cisco VPN user's guide says:
> > "The VPN Client for Linux does not support kernel Version 2.5 prior to
> > VPN Client Release 4.0.1.A and
> > does not support SMP (multiprocessor) kernels in any release of the VPN
> > Client."
> >   
> 
> 4.0.1A is a really old version - in fact I never saw this version?
> 
> We use Cisco VPN on SL3/4/5 with SMP and with UP kernel since a few year 
> now.
> We don't have any problems on SMP / or SL5, as far as I know.
> 
> We use version 4.8.00.0490 on SL5/SL4 and version 4.6 on SL3.
> 
>     Urs
> 
> 
> 
> > But there used to be kernel.*.rpm and kernel-smp.*.rpm
> > for download. Is there such a thing for SL-5.1
> >
> >
> >
> > Here is the compilation error:
> >
> >
> > Making module
> > make -C /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.1.13.el5xen/build
> > SUBDIRS=/home/rannou/vpnclient modules
> > make[1]: Entering directory
> > `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.1.13.el5-xen-i686'
> >   CC [M]  /home/rannou/vpnclient/linuxcniapi.o
> > In file included from /home/rannou/vpnclient/linuxcniapi.c:12:
> > include/linux/config.h:6:2: warning: #warning Including config.h is
> > deprecated.
> > /home/rannou/vpnclient/linuxcniapi.c: In function ‘CniInjectReceive’:
> > /home/rannou/vpnclient/linuxcniapi.c:315: error: ‘struct sk_buff’ has no
> > member named ‘stamp’
> > /home/rannou/vpnclient/linuxcniapi.c: In function ‘CniInjectSend’:
> > /home/rannou/vpnclient/linuxcniapi.c:452: error: ‘struct sk_buff’ has no
> > member named ‘stamp’
> > make[2]: *** [/home/rannou/vpnclient/linuxcniapi.o] Error 1
> > make[1]: *** [_module_/home/rannou/vpnclient] Error 2
> > make[1]: Leaving directory
> > `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.1.13.el5-xen-i686'
> > make: *** [default] Error 2
> >
> > On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 10:10 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> >   
> >> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 9:56 AM, markaoki <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>
> >>     
> >>>  Hello
> >>>  I have noticed that there is no SMP kernel in the
> >>>  repositories. Is this right?
> >>>
> >>>  How can I choose between SMP and no SMP kernel during the
> >>>  installation?
> >>>
> >>>  It seems that the installation picked the SMP version
> >>>  automatically, but I do not want it because I have some
> >>>  modules that do not compile with it (Cisco VPN)
> >>>
> >>>  Thanks for your help
> >>>
> >>>  Fernando
> >>>       
> >>> hi Fernando,
> >>>       
> >>>  If you want, you can post your compile errors here.
> >>>  I have never seen a situation where smp support caused a compile failure.
> >>>  Its very interesting, thanks
> >>>
> >>>  -mark
> >>>       
> >> Fernando,
> >>
> >> Looks like the Release Notes (even the latest) for Cisco VPN says "SMP
> >> kernels are not supported".  I suppose the only way to get a non-smp
> >> (UP) kernel is to recompile from the source.  I have done this before
> >> but with an earlier version of the kernel.  I heard that more recent
> >> version had some issue when rebuilding.
> >>
> >> I wonder if you *must* use Cisco VPN ...
> >>
> >> Akemi
> >>
> >>     
> >
> >
> >   
> 


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