installing linuxant modem drivers on powerbook

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 03:00:01PM +0100, altern wrote:

> i am still struggling with modem drivers. I wrote linuxant and they 
> answered me this:
> 
> > it looks like a problem with the 'kernel-headers' package you have
> > installed. You could try with a fresh 2.6.10 kernel from
> > http://www.kernel.org to see if there is a difference?
> 
> is there any simpler solution to this problem i get? I tried to compile 
> a new kernel and i nearly killed my computer. I am not very experienced 
> at linux.

This is a bug which was fixed in version 2.6.9-2 of the Ubuntu packaged
Linux kernel (in other words, it is fixed in Hoary).

There are various ways that you could work around this; whether they would
be simpler for you is difficult to gauge.  You basically need to provide a
copy of the necessary headers, which can be found in the
linux-source-2.6.8.1 source package, someplace where the build can find
them.

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 - mdz