hello,
thank you for your quick reply. i am logged in as root when running vmware to compile the modules. at first it was complaining about not finding the kernel headers, so i created a version.h in /lib/modules/3.8.0-rc5/build/include/linux/ which is actually pointing to /usr/src/linux-3.8-rc5/include/linux. the version.h is attached. maybe i got something wrong in there.
than you again.