[dubailug] Aztech ADSL Modem Configuration

[N. Sridhar]

Hello, I was using Linux years back (RedHat/Mandrake) years ago while I was in India on my desktop. However, after coming to UAE, I had an official laptop which had to have Windows system. Now, I have loaded OpenSuse 10.1 on an external USB hard disk and am using it regularly. I have a dual boot machine with Windows 2000 and OpenSuse. I use Thunderbird mail client with the mail folders being shared across windows as well as Linux so that I can use it  with both the systems. I now am having problems in configuring the  Aztech ADSL modem supplied by Etisalat.  I got the tar.bz file for the eagle-usb modem driver from the CD. When I follow the instructions for loading the driver, i get an error of Kernel Source not found when i do the ./configure. I had original kernel 2.6.16.13-4-smp which was loaded from the CD which was upgraded online later with kernel 2.6.16.27-0.9-smp. I am attaching the error message below for information. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/> su Password: aew0943:/ # cd eagle-usb-2.0.0/ aew0943:/eagle-usb-2.0.0 # ./configure checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether ln -s works... yes checking for dirent.h that defines DIR... yes checking for library containing opendir... none required checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for egrep... grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking fcntl.h usability... yes checking fcntl.h presence... yes checking for fcntl.h... yes checking limits.h usability... yes checking limits.h presence... yes checking for limits.h... yes checking netinet/in.h usability... yes checking netinet/in.h presence... yes checking for netinet/in.h... yes checking for stdint.h... (cached) yes checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes checking for string.h... (cached) yes checking sys/ioctl.h usability... yes checking sys/ioctl.h presence... yes checking for sys/ioctl.h... yes checking sys/socket.h usability... yes checking sys/socket.h presence... yes checking for sys/socket.h... yes checking sys/time.h usability... yes checking sys/time.h presence... yes checking for sys/time.h... yes checking syslog.h usability... yes checking syslog.h presence... yes checking for syslog.h... yes checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes checking for off_t... yes checking for size_t... yes checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes checking whether struct tm is in sys/time.h or time.h... time.h checking for working volatile... yes checking whether closedir returns void... no checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes checking for GNU libc compatible malloc... yes checking for working memcmp... yes checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes checking for GNU libc compatible realloc... yes checking sys/select.h usability... yes checking sys/select.h presence... yes checking for sys/select.h... yes checking for sys/socket.h... (cached) yes checking types of arguments for select... int,fd_set *,struct timeval * checking return type of signal handlers... void checking whether lstat dereferences a symlink specified with a trailing slash... yes checking whether stat accepts an empty string... no checking for strftime... yes checking for alarm... yes checking for gettimeofday... yes checking for memset... yes checking for select... yes checking for socket... yes checking for strcspn... yes checking for strdup... yes checking for strerror... yes checking for strncasecmp... yes checking for strspn... yes checking for strtol... yes checking for ifconfig... yes checking for route... yes checking for pidof... yes checking for dhclient... dhclient checking for pppd... yes checking for pppoe... no checking for tclsh... yes checking for wish... yes checking for doc/man/eagleconfig.8... yes checking for xsltproc... yes    *** docbook stylesheets are missing, keeping prebuild version *** checking for kernel version...  not found checking for ifup... 1 checking for adictrl... no checking for eaglectrl... no checking for showstat... no checking for eaglestat... no checking for startadsl... no checking for stopadsl... no configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile.common ======================================================================== distribution detected                           generic dhcp support                                    dhclient pppd support                                    yes   pppoa support                                 yes   pppoe support                                 no  (runtime detection) install eagleconnect (tcl/tk frontend)          yes generate documentation                          no ======================================================================== error: kernel-sources cannot be found! aew0943:/eagle-usb-2.0.0 # I searched the group archives and could not find any reference to a similar problem. Googling for the similar problem did not provide any pointers other than the information that I have to compile the kernel from source. I am not familiar with compiling kernel and do not want to risk landing in any other problems due to the mistakes which I may make while compiling the kernel. I have normally found that it is better to load packages with rpm files, but I was not able to find any Suse rpm the eagle usb modem. However rpm for Mandriva are available on the net. I am not sure if I will be able to laod the rpm of mandriva in Suse.  Any help of getting the modem to work and getting connected to the internet from Linux will be appreciated. Regards N. Sridhar -- Mail Client: Thunderbird Browser: Firefox Office Suite: OpenOffice