[melchizedek]

Hi there,

If anyone could correct me as to where I'm going wrong here I'd be grateful. I'm new to Linux, and am struggling a little to install my Speedtouch USB modem on Fedora 2.6.11-1.

I have the "source-forge" instructions printed out...and I'm trying to follow them. This is what's happening......

The Instructions tell me to do the following....

If you're not sure what revision your modem is, use the command
cat /proc/bus/usb/devices | grep -B 1 THOMSON
cat /proc/bus/usb/devices | grep -B 1 ALCATEL

I do so, and success, I get.....

P: Vendor=06b9 ProdID=4061 Rev= 2.00
S: Manufacturer=ALCATEL

I'm then told that in order to get the files from my floppy....the files being the "firmware extractor" (firmware-extractor.tar) and my "Speedtouch firmware" (SpeedTouch330_firmware_3012), I need to do the following....

cp -r /media/floppy/* . &&
chmod +x firmware-extractor

I do so, but get an error.....

"chmod: cannot access `firmware-extractor': No such file or directory"

The files have copied however to the Root Home folder. Both tarred files are there....but I'm pretty sure that last command was supposed to do something more, but didn't...hence the error message.

At this point I assume that it's because the firmware-extractor is still tarred that it's not functioning (clever huh??), so I go to the instructions that relate to untarring it.

The instructions say.....

Download a copy of the firmware-extractor and untar it.

I'm assuming that untar is the same as unzip...so I right click it and choose extract here. I get another file in the Root Home folder called "firmware-extractor.tar.gz_files", so I'm assuming that we're untarred.

Put a copy of your firmware in the firmware-extractor folder and rename it mgmt.o. Change directory into the firmware-extractor and run ./configure and make

Ok...I take the relevant firmware file (making sure it's untarred), move it into the correct folder and rename it mgmt.o, as requested.....

I'm then asked to enter.....

cd firmware-extractor &&
./configure &&
make &&
su

To which I get......

FIRMWARE_DIR=/lib/firmware
gcc -o firmware firmware.c
make: gcc: Command not found
make: *** [all] Error 127
[root@localhost firmware-extractor]#


The firmware hasn't been split...and I'm at a loss as to what to do.....And I don't know what "gcc" is, although I do notice that I need it. Do I need to download it separately ?

Any help would be appreciated.

[melchizedek]

Hmmmm...I think I'm getting somewhere. I think the problem's with the "firmware-extractor".

When I untar it it turns into a folder. When I use the command "./firmware -extractor" I keep getting the error message....

bash: ./firmware-extractor: is a directory

I'd assumed that after extraction the "firmware extractor" would be come an executable of some sort....but it just turns into a folder with a few files inside.

Any idea what's going on?

[melchizedek]

Problem sorted...I didn't have GCC installed. Once I did...things worked fine.