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Welcome to LQ,
When you extracted it, was there a README file, or an INSTALL file, or some form of file to read about the next steps? There should be, so recommend you check for that, because it will give you specific guidelines and discuss prerequisites you need to have installed on your system to build and install this driver.
To install something from source, the typical steps are like:
configure
make
install
Typically on the command line as:
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
configure is usually a script which checks your system to determine if you have all the pre-requisites. And sorry, if the software is unusual or highly complicated, just getting through the configure step sometimes can be difficult. And then sometimes it just runs, and tells you to do the make and install afterwards with no fuss. Sometimes a coin toss.
make is a command to run the build which configure has set up as part of that earlier function.
sudo make install: The sudo gives root privileges to this process. Make is the same as make, but you're giving it an argument this time, install. The install argument sets up the installed software in the proper places on your system for use.
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