On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 20:00, Mike MacCana wrote: > What you should do: > > * Install a package containing the driver. Check > http://dag.wieers.com/apt/ > for packages containing most drivers that couldn't come with Red Hat, and > freshrpms.net too. > > * Install the kernel-headers and kernel-source packages, visit the > directory > containing the driver you'd like, type `make' and copy the .o file to > /lib/modules/whatever. Then type depmod to update the kernel's big list of > modules which rely on other mkodukles to include the new driver.
I would actually prefer building a new kernel than doing it this way (providing the driver is actually in the kernel tree ;-) ). But about the only reason I have for that is because I'd be building a kernel package and letting the package manager handle it as well. -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
