This one time, at band camp, Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D. said: > I have just installed Debian on a Copmaq Presario 5070, but my > ethernet card was not recognized. I have a manufacturer-provided > driver for it, but I only have the source, so I must compile it and > connect it to the system. > > The make file calls for gcc and some other software, so I have to > install those first, but so far I have not even been able to find the > "make" module in the mess of packages that are provided. Isn't there > some kind of meta-install package that will install the software you > need to compile and link a driver? For future reference, the mailing list debian-user@lists.debian.org is probably better suited to these sorts of queries. This is a mostly dead list (that I guess I had forgotten I was still subscribed to) designed for discussions about the toolchain itself. All that being said, there is a meta-package, build-essential, which should get you most of what you need to build kernel modules. After that, you'll need the kernel-headers-$(uname -r) package. If build-essential does not for some reason install make, the package is named, perhaps too obviously, make. Take care, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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