I'm running Red Hat on my computer and I have the MSI Neo2 motherboard with integrated sound. I downloaded the sound drivers and I'm having trouble installing them.

Here's what the readme says word for word (even that little mispelling, which makes me very nervous )
I have NO idea where the soundcore module is other than the directory with sound drivers.

If I try to go ahead and do a make I get this message

if you run "gcc --version", what output do you get?

command not found

Well, this means that gcc is not installed, so you have to do this. Just do it with your Mandrake utility. Then, try it again.
Good luck

I'm running Red Hat. I need to change that in my profile...

Edit: BTW, what is GCC because I'm trying to install it but I have no idea which section of the package installer its under. There was a search feature in Mandrake...

I just found this:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...002/11/3/35470
You know how to install an rpm from console do you?

Well, I went to that link and went browsing the CD as that person did. I found 3 files with GCC in their names and all 3 gave me the message that they were already installed.

I don't know whether this is the right thing to do next, but here we go:
Try locating the gcc file, what I'm actually looking for is the binary. If I type which gcc, it gives me /usr/bin/gcc. You gonna have command not found or something.
Once you have located the binary, it must be somewhere it can be executed. If you run "echo $PATH", you'll get a list of directories in which the system looks for binaries. If the path to your gcc isn't listed there, you have to add to this variable the path to your gcc binary (I'm just thinking of it, this can't be right - but give it a try)
Good luck

I have gcc296 in my /user/bin and that's one of the places that came up when i ran that command

All right - what I would do then:
1. Log in as root
2. cd /usr/bin
3. ln -sf gcc296 gcc
4. ln -sf gcc296 cc
5. Try to recompile your driver

Ok did that. It seems to have fixed one problem, but now there's a different error message.

$ make
cc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O -fno-strict-aliasing -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -malign-functions=4 -DMODULE -c -o main.o main.c
In file included from cmaudio.h:7,
from main.c:1:
/usr/include/linux/delay.h:13:23: asm/delay.h: No such file or directory
In file included from main.c:1:
cmaudio.h:18:30: linux/ac97_codec.h: No such file or directory
In file included from main.c:1:
cmaudio.h:20:25: asm/uaccess.h: No such file or directory
cmaudio.h:21:25: asm/hardirq.h: No such file or directory
make: *** [main.o] Error 1

It looks like it is looking forthe linux kernel headers, which you obvously have not installed. Check your Redhat CD for them and install them as well. The rpm could be called kernel-headers....rpm or linux-headers.....rpm, redhat-headers or anything like that. They do not have any dependencies
These are files required to install drivers - they get stored under /usr/include/linux or /usr/include/asm etc. Without them, you can't comile anything that requires a call to a kernel function.