Paul M Foster wrote:
> Bill Glidden wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>>
>> There is a line in the makefile for the driver that reads:
>>
>> INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/src/linux/drivers/usb
>>
>>
>>
>> I don’t have a linux directory under /usr/src. I can’t find a
>> directory named “drivers” which contains .h files, anywhere on the
>> system. Must I do something else to get the build environment set up
>> properly?
>>
>> The net result is that the driver doesn’t compile correctly, because
>> I’m assuming it’s missing the include files that it needs.
>>
>> Any hints or suggestions welcome! Or, put another way, does anyone
>> want to come to my office and figure this out for me? I don’t have
>> the time, but I do have the money!
>>
>
> Normally it works this way on Debian:
>
> /usr/src will have a lot of subdirectories, but the one you want is
> /usr/src/linux. You make that a symlink to the directory that contains
> the linux kernel source you want. But if I'm not mistaken, you have to
> unpack the source first, which creates the exact directory you want.
>
> Debian is a little weird about this. They have a whole other module
> directory somewhere else that duplicates what's in the kernel source
> directory (once you build the kernel). And then there's another
> directory that duplicates the header files elsewhere. Maybe they all
> do that; I dunno.
>
> Paul
>
> P.S. Use the 2.6 kernels; they're faster, among other things.
>
Agreed on the 2.6 comment. I'm not a roll-your-own kind of guy because
I'm not that well-versed in the workings of Linux, but 2.6 is far
superior to 2.4 at any rate.
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