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hello again. i'm running ZIP Slack 8.0 on a thinkpad & i'm trying to install the modem drivers. whenever i type ./configure for the modem driver source it tells me i must specify the correct path to my linux kernel source tree...i'm assuming this is the kernel source itself. it is not included with the version of slackware linux called ZIP Slack, which is a small version of slack 8 that fits on a zip100 disk...i was wondering if anyone knew exactly what source code i needed to download for zip slack 8.0
thanks
error27
10-20-2001, 03:34 PM
I think this is going to be a very complicated thing to do.
Do you even have gcc etc installed so that you can compile all this source?
I'm assuming that you have a harddrive running windows? If so then the easiest thing would be to save the kernel source onto the harddrive and mount you windows partition and use that.
Otherwise this process is going to be quite difficult.
oh yeah, man...it's got gcc...
You don't say whether you're running ZipSlack on an actual 100MB Zip disk or just on your FAT partition. Please be as specific as possible when asking for help.
If you are using a Zip disk, if memory serves me right, I think the basic install takes up a good 80MB of that, so you're out of luck with regards to having the kernel source or even just the kernel headers and then expect to have room to compile the module. I don't know how it would work if you were to use a spare FAT partition on your HDD for the kernel source, I suppose you could try it.
If you're just using an existing FAT partition on the HDD, just grab the kernel source package Slackware provides or get your own kernel source and untar it under /usr/src/, then compile a fresh kernel, install and reboot with the new kernel, then compile your module and you should be set.
Originally posted by bdl:
<STRONG>You don't say whether you're running ZipSlack on an actual 100MB Zip disk or just on your FAT partition. Please be as specific as possible when asking for help.</STRONG>
sorry, but i didn't think this info really mattered based on my question. i just wanted to know what source to download. thanks, though.