Install Drivers????

[tb525]

I see Linux is going to drive me bananas for a while!

How the heck do you install drivers in Mandrake 9.0??

Everytime I try the 'make install' command, I get Error 127 and Error 2.

[ceh383]

What kind of driver are you trying to install?

[Tweaker]

DId you install the developmental packages. Does it do checking for gcc - no and stuff like that?

[tb525]

It's a Aureal Vortex sound card driver. Here's what I get:

make install AUCHIP=AU8820
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/thomas/au88xx-1.0.5'
cc -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DAU8820 -O -Wall -pipe -m486 -I/usr/src/linux/include
-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -o vortex.o vortex.c
make[1]: cc: Command not found
make[1]: *** [vortex.o] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/thomas/au88xx-1.0.5'
make: *** [install20] Error 2
[root@oh-chardon1a-148 au88xx-1.0.5]#

[Tweaker]

make[1]: cc: Command not found

you don't have a c compiler installed. if the mandrake package junk is all configured properly, just run "urpmi gcc" as root and let it install everything it needs.

[MrGuru]

i perfer installing drivers as mods
lsmod for example shows installed mods
see if the driver ya installing has a mod that can be installed without recompiling the kernal