make
su
insmod resulting .o (the actual device driver)
check to make sure it works.
It does, so dump the .o into your /lib/linux/modules/2.4.22/usb/
or something like that.
Read that website that Kevin Bronw mentioned, it goes into more detail.
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 21:23, Michael Havens wrote:
> I have decided to venture into new teritory. I downloaded a driver (hopefully)
> for my webcam. The tar -xed file contains a bunch of c and header programs. I
> need to know what to do. These are the programs that I am talking about:
>
> knoppix@bmike1:~/Downloads/nthr cam/pwc-8.11/2.4.21$ ls
> ls
> pwc-ctrl.c pwc-ioctl.h pwc-uncompress.c pwc.h pwc_nala.h
> pwc-if.c pwc-misc.c pwc-uncompress.h pwc_kiara.h pwc_timon.h
>
> One that I find particularly interesting is the pwc-uncompress.c because
> (though I am inexperienced) I think that it will uncompress all the other
> programs contained with it; however, I am unsure. Could someone teach me what
> I need to know and how to run gcc?
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