Help Installing Laptop Modem Driver??Forum: Networking Topic: Help Installing Laptop Modem Driver?? started by: St. Paul Posted by St. Paul on April 19 2005,16:06
I need to use dialup (Sorry, some of us still don't have access to DSL or Cable) and it seems that my laptop modem isn't natively supported by DSL. I got a:
No worries cuz a linux driver is available at < pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net >. HOWEVER, you have to actually compile the driver and here's where I get stuck: 1. I downloaded and installed gcc from the myDSL repository at ibilio.org. 2. But the driver install script wants "cc" not "gcc". Where can I get "cc"? Any way to get around this? Anyone know where I can get the pre-compiled binaries for my modem? FYI - I'm a linux newbie Thanks!! |