Compiling drivers

[Chris Miller]

On 12/16/06, Tez <binary_y2k2 at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> 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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> >                  against the attack of those who want to die.
> >
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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

Also, I've found that the sources generally hang around /usr/src.
This was on Gentoo, so YMMV on Ubuntu.

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