Install local drivers

Wavey

Evening all.
I'm new to linux so be patient.
I have Ubuntu Studio installed.
I have a usb to RS232 convertor for controlling a telescope.
This convert came with linux drivers.
The driver package consists of a .c file and a .h file.
There is also a readme which contains:


# This Makefile has been simplified as much as possible, by putting all
# generic material, independent of this specific directory, into
# ../Rules.make. Read that file for details

# The usb serial headers
INCLUDEUSBSER := $(shell echo "/usr/src/linux-`uname -r`/drivers/usb/serial/")

TOPDIR := $(shell pwd)
#TOPDIR = .
include $(TOPDIR)/Rules.make

CFLAGS += -I$(INCLUDEUSBSER) -O

OBJS = ftdi.o

all: $(OBJS)

ftdi.o: ftdi_sio.o


install:
install -d $(INSTALLDIR)
install -c $(OBJS) $(INSTALLDIR)

clean:
rm -f *.o *~ core

I'm guessing these are steps to be performed in the terminal window but I am struggling.
Can anyone help?
Thanks,

Wavey

Stuxnet

presuming the files are extracted to somewhere, if you right click each file, go to properties, and go to permissions tab, and tick the box to make them executable, then double click them, & run in terminal, they should install,

Sherifu

Have you tried the following 3 commands: ?

./configure
make
make install

Saganist

Can you list the files in the directory you untarred the files ?

As a pervious poster said. Normally you run the configure script ( ./configure )

And then run make, make test and make install.

Make sure your C complier and make command are in your PATH

echo $PATH to verify, or run which make.

Wavey

Thanks for the replies lads.
I am a complete linux novice so speak slowly.

The files that I untarred are:

ftdi_sio.c
ftdi_sio.h
Makefile (no extension)
Rules.make


How to I run the commands "./configure, make, make install "?
I have typed them into the terminal but that dosent work.

Thanks,

Wavey

Knasher

You don't have a ./configure script so skip that command.

Make sure you are in the right directory before calling make. After calling make you should have a file called ftdi.o, if you don't, post the terminal output from make.

After that you will probably need to call "sudo make install"

Jonathan

FTDI based RS232 chips are ubiquitous and should be detected automatically in any recent distribution.

Plug it in and type dmesg to see if it is detected.

Wavey

Jonathan wrote: »

FTDI based RS232 chips are ubiquitous and should be detected automatically in any recent distribution.

Plug it in and type dmesg to see if it is detected.

The device is listed when I type dmesg.
Is it safe to assume the device is working correctly if it listed there?

Jonathan

Wavey wrote: »

The device is listed when I type dmesg.
Is it safe to assume the device is working correctly if it listed there?

Yup. The FTDI driver has been included in the mainline kernel since 2.6.12 at least (that was when kernel development moved to git).