HOW TO: Install vmware on Simply Mepis (AKA. Installing Kernel Headers)

DISCLAIMER: This solution was originally published on www.mepislovers.com by zipslack. I hope you don't mind me copying, and slightly editing, it here as this seems to be a common question.

I ended up downloading the vanilla 2.6.7 sources and unpacking them to the /usr/src/linux-2.6.7 directory. I then ran
make oldconfig followed by make (to get all the modules and lib files)

After that, you should be able to install vmware (currently using ver. 4.5.2 on SM-2004.1)

I have installed vmware on SimpleMepis 2004.02 using these above instructions. I'm assuming they would work for the 2.4 kernel too, providing you download the 2.4 sources.

Hope this helps