How do I compile a 3rd party device driver ?

As an example on how to compile a 3rd party device driver for the 2.6 kernel, lets look at how to compile the [http://www.hawkingtech.com//support/details.php?CatID=19&FamID=33&ProdID=175&Rev=Z2 HWU54G] Wireless driver for Fedora Core.

kernel-devel

First, you need to make sure you have the kernel-devel package for your kernel installed. If your kernel is up to date, simply doing a yum install kernel-devel should be enough. Verify that you have a kernel-devel package of the same version as your currently running kernel!

  # yum install kernel-devel
  # uname -a
  # rpm -q kernel-devel

If the versions of your currently running kernel and kernel-devel package do not match, you should probably upgrade the kernel and reboot into that new kernel.

Unpack and build driver

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