[ltp] Thinkpad 600 Modem Question

[Mark Beierl]

Have you installed the kernel sources?  For rh7.1 that's kernel-source-2.4.2
which installs to /usr/src/linux-2.4.2.

Regards,
Mark Beierl

Richard Rush 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
>
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