[ltp] Thinkpad 600 Modem Question

[Thomas Hood]

 --- Richard Rush <rushputin@hotmail.com> wrote: 
> Right now, I'm running RedHat 7.1 on my Thinkpad 600.  I've finally gotten 
> around to downloading the modem drivers for it and trying to install them, 
> though I've hit something of a speed bump.  For the record, I'm pretty durn 
> new to Linux, so I'm willing to bet that it's something stupid that I'm 
> overlooking, but... I haven't managed to find a way past this.
> 
> When I run ./configure (in the appropriate directory), I get the error:
> 
> configure: error: *** You must specify the correct path to your linux kernel 
> source tree in order to build the driver module.
> 
> Now, --help seems to say that to do so, I should run the command as:
> 
> ./configure --with-linuxsrcdir=DIR  DIR, being the location of said source 
> tree.
> 
> That's well and good, but I'm having trouble finding the specific path to 
> it.  I've tried /usr/src/linux, /usr/src/linux/linux-.2.16, /usr/src/
> redhat, /usr/src/linux/drivers, and /usr/src/mwavem-1.0.2 (the location of 
> the drivers).  No love; I get the same error each time.  Any ideas or help 
> would be *really* appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Richard

If you are running a recent kernel, you can get the mwave device driver
code as a patch to the kernel instead of as a standalone package.  
I find it easiest to use the kernel patch because then compilation
is taken care of by the usual "make modules" in the Linux source tree.

Thomas

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Linux on ThinkPad 600 page: http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/tp600lnx.htm

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