Setting up a Winmodem under RH7.1

["Aidan Whitehall" <aidan thenetprofits co uk>]

I'm going through the amazingly thorough mini-HOWTO at
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/PCTel-MicroModem-Config/
to set up a winmodem. Can anyone help with a few Qs?


"The first requisite for installation is that you have a kernel source in
/usr/src/linux/ (see section 7.6) and it must be configured, that is, you
should have done a bash$ make configure and bash$ make dep on it."

The source files aren't there. Are the source files the ones in
/lib/modules/?


"While doing these make sure that you have the source for your running
kernel...for example, if you are running kernel 2.4.8 and if you have the
source for kernel 2.4.9 in /usr/src/linux/, then the drivers would not
work."

If the source files also came from RH 7.1 installation CD, presumably they
are for the correct kernel version.... right?


"Moreover, you must configure the kernel with isapnp and pnp support
and see to the fact that you don't have a smp/uniprocessor mismatch
(that is, running uniprocessor kernel but having a kernel source with
smp support in /usr/src/linux). Also, you will need a kernel which supports
loadable modules."

OK, now I'm really lost! Should I give up at this point, or is it something
that's actually easy to do?


4) And of course, you need to have gcc installed, check it by issuing the
command bash$ gcc -v . If you do not get any errors, the everything
is all right

I ran "gcc --help", but it said something like "command not found". Is gcc
something that you can install from the package manager in Gnome?


Thanks if you can offer any help. And if there's another mailing list which
would be more appropriate to ask these questions, please let me know. I've
spent all day on Google and IRC to try and find help with this, but no dice.


Aidan
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