Compiling drivers

[Tez]

Renaud (Ron) Olgiati wrote:
> New motherboard, comes with instructions to compile the sound and NIC drivers 
> for Linux.
>
> First problem was it wanted make; so I installed make
>
> Then when running make, 
> 	ron at ron:/home/opt/src$ sudo make install
> 	Makefile:16: *** Linux kernel source not found.  Stop.
>
> Looked for "kernel source" with synaptic, cannot find anything.
>
> HELP ! 
>  
> TIA,
>  
> Ron.
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Ok, if you're going to compile anything you'll need a few different
packages, fortunately you can get them all with a metapackage:
build-essential
If you're building modules (drivers), you need the kernel source, or at
least the headers. You can install either (or both) of:
(for Edgy)
linux-source-2.6.17
linux-headers-2.6.17-10-generic

Usually all you'll need is the headers, so try that first, as the source
is around 40MB

Tez