what does 'build up the drivers from the source code' mean?

albertwahlang · 06-19-2010, 06:40 AM

what does 'build up the drivers from the source code' mean?

I have downloaded the driver of Rtl8187 for the wireless usb card to install in my Redhat Linux Enterprise 5 ,kernel 2.6.On the read me, it said to Build up the drivers from the source code'.What does that mean.

Help, am new to linux.

smoker · 06-19-2010, 06:50 AM

If the driver is not compiled, then you have to compile it. From a command line, change into the directory where you extracted the driver files. Then issue the following commands (one at a time):

Code:

./configure
make
make install

Optionally you can run make clean afterwards, which cleans out the temporary files created when you configure and make.

Aquarius_Girl · 06-19-2010, 06:56 AM

And if you have the driver with an extension of tar, then you need to do

Code:

tar -xf xyz.tar.bz2

It will give you a new directory named xyz, where you can do what smoker said !

Replace xyz with the driver name

albertwahlang · 06-19-2010, 07:05 AM

Thanks guys.

Aquarius_Girl · 06-19-2010, 07:09 AM

Did you notice the bottom right corner of your first post ?

You can mark the thread solved from there [if you think your question has been answered]