Getting sound to work on old Thinkpad
 

I'm installing Crunchbang Linux to an old a22 Thinkpad. No soundcards were recognized, turns out I have a Cirrus Logic cs461, and Debian doesn't include it in the kernel, so I'm following a guide from the Debian wiki.
http://wiki.debian.org/snd-cs46xx

I fail at the line that says, after downloading the patch, on the next line "gcc -o write_images write_images.c"

I get: "gcc; write_images.c: No such file or directory"

How can I get past this? Using kernel 2.6.32-5-686

Either you did not follow the step where you are advised to download 'write_images.c' or you are not in the directory where it resides?

I wondered about being in a certain directory, but from what I read, there's no directory specified at the point where I attempt to compile write-images.

I didn't see any errors when I entered: $ wget 'http://wiki.debian.org/snd-cs46xx?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=write_images.c' -O write_images.c

that's supposed to be the source code to write out the firmware.

I see that the firmware contains ' -O write_images' and the instructions for compiling show ' gcc -o write-images', then I get the error that 'no gcc; write_images.c No such file or directory" and there's also an error showing "gcc: no input files." Hadn't seen the last error before, not sure if that's any additional clue.

It's not a step by step guide, it assumes the user knows the basics of file management, etc.

So I guess there's a way to see where the guide assumes I know where to initiate the g compiler to install to. A few instructions later the guide uses mkdir to create a directory to install the compiled program to, but the compiling seems to be done in magicland.

From what internet searching I've done, I haven't found anything where someone successfully installed this, so it's not looking good. I do know that for a while, I had Mint LXDE working on it, but now for some reason (probably because I've only been able to pony up for 256m ram), all I can install are Crunchbang and Semplice, and both are Debian based, with the same kernel.

gcc cannot find the file. You presumably downloaded the file using the earlier wget command?

So before trying to compile it:If that returns nothing, then you're not in the correct directory. If you used the wget command in the guide it would have saved the "write_images.c" file in the current directory.

are you in the directory or the downloaded package?
cd to whereever the package is then try the gcc command.