Guest lawrence Posted February 14, 2005 Report Share Posted February 14, 2005 email: lawrenceporter at yahoo dot com Edited e-mail to prevent your e-mail address being picked up by spambots... - Darkelve I am trying to install a driver for my Satellite-Pro 4600 Soft-Modem and, according to the intallation documentation, I need the 'correct path to the local kernel source tree' (see extract below). Any assistance to help me further down the line would be reatly appreciated. Regards Lawrence *********************** Extract ---> 3. Review and edit 'Makefile' (if need): In many cases you will need to correct path to your local kernel source tree: KERNEL_DIR=/path/to/linux Default KERNEL_DIR is '/lib/modules/<kerne-version>/build'. Many Linux Distributions use directory '/usr/src/linux-<version>' also. Note: If you are using Linux kernel 2.4, only header files should be available for build in $(KERNEL_DIR)/include Another way to pass right value KERNEL_DIR is to use command line parameter while running 'make': $ make KERNEL_DIR=/path/to/linux ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo Posted February 17, 2005 Report Share Posted February 17, 2005 (edited) The path is probably /usr/src/linux if you are running a newly installed Mandrake and have not recompiled your kernel. Edited February 17, 2005 by Leo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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