installing linuxant modem drivers on powerbook

altern enrike at altern.org
Mon Feb 28 11:31:24 UTC 2005


Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 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.


thanks for the answer i never managed to make it work and i couldnt find 
any solution, but knowing that it is a bug i take it easy until i 
upgrade to hoary.

-- 
enrike





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