I think winmodem supportis due sometime in 2.3.40+ kernels. I may be wrong
- something is ringing a bell in the back of my head....
*.tar.gz is a gzipped tape archive. Basically, just like a zip, arj, rar,
lha, lzh, etc. file in Windows or other OS's
First thing is to unpack them to somewhere.
I always 'gunzip' the gz file and then 'tar -xvf' the resulting tar file
but you can pipe the commands together the tell tar to do the unzipping for
you. It depends upno your habits.
Next thing - READ THE README FILE. This will virtually ALWAYS tell you how
to build and install the package.
I'd strongly suggest looking at the manual for 'make' and spending some
time reading about 'makefile's. Once you know what the makefile is trying
to do, you can then pretty much work out what you need to do to install the
thing!
I ALWAYS perform a
make -n target
to see exactly what the make file will do - the -n switch tells make to not
actually issue any commands, but to echo what it WOULD have issued to the
screen. That way you can see where files are going to be copied to before
they actually get copied there for real!
The most important thing though, is to ALWAYS READ THE DOCUMENTION OR
README. 99% of the time, it'll always tell you what you should do.
How many times have you ran an install-shield package in windows and not
had a clue aobut what was being placed where and why! With Linux, you get
the decision of where files will go, who can use them, etc, and if you have
the source code, you can see what they are going to do when you run them!
Steve Flynn
IBM MVS Operations Analyst
"tommmmie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 23/02/2000 21:42:21
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Subject: [newbie] newest version of mandrake or redhat...
can anyone tell me what version of either of these is going to support
winmodems and usb ethernet cards...? thanks...
also can anyone give me a really general explination of the whole
****.tar.gz files...and the make this and make install that...i want to use
some patches for things but i need to know more about the make this and
that
thing...thanks
tommmmie
