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5.3 Linux Installation
This chapter describes the Linux LAN/WAN driver for this USB
ADSL modem.
This driver supports Linux-2.6 kernels. The Linux kernel sources
can be downloaded from:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/.
The installed system should already have the kernel sources
installed in the /usr/src/linux or /lib/modules directory. If they
are not there, try to get them off the installation disks for your
distribution, or download the latest Linux-2.6 kernel, and con-
figure and build that. One common problem while compiling
modules on a new kernel is not to create link /usr/src/linux
which should point to the relevant kernel source directory. On
a freshly installed system this link might not be present and
needs to be created before the kernel or any driver module can
be compiled. There are lots of books and documents available
describing how to extract, configure and build the kernel from
it’s sources...
The driver is compiled and tested for:
- Fedora Core 3 : kernel 2.6.9-1.667 using gcc 3.4.2
- SuseLinux 9.2 : kernel 2.6.8.8-24.10 using gcc 3.3.4
- Mandrake 10.1 : kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk using gcc 3.4.1