How do you make "make" work?

Tue May 17 14:20:47 UTC 2005

On Tue, 17 May 2005 07:07:18 -0700 (PDT)
"Lisa Z." <netrouter9 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Cause it won't.  I cded ltmodem-2.6-alk-7(I'm trying to get my
> winmodem to work under Ubuntu). Yeah and that worked. That was the
> last thing that worked(the cding). But then "Make" just wouldn't work.
> I think it said something about not having a target.

if there no Makefile then "make" will come up with that,
you probably need the usual :
./configure ; make ; make install (you need sudo or root for the last
bit)

did the INSTALL or README say that just "make" was enough ?