PCTel Linmodem Install probs. with Gentoo

[EddiE314]

I recently aquired a PCTel PCT789T Winmodem (PCI) because i used to have one running in Red Hat a long time ago, and it was only $2. I downloaded the drivers from here, one of the requirements of the pctel-0.9.6 drivers was that i have to be running a kernel 2.4.x or newer, no prob. uname -r shows 2.4.20-gentoo-r5. i proceeded with the install by reading the PCTel HSP MicroModem Configuration mini-HOWTO by Sayamindu Dasgupta and here's what it said after the ./configure command:

ELysiUM-314 pctel-0.9.6 # ./configure -with-hal=pct789
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking build driver for... HAL_PCT789
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... none
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for gawk... (cached) gawk
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h usability... yes
checking /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h presence... yes
checking for /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h... yes
checking for Linux kernel version >= 2.4.0... ./configure: line 3344: test: 2-gentoo: integer expression expected
no
configure: error: You should have linux kernel >= 2.4.0 installed

from what i can gather, its having a problem with the kernel version's name, how can i fix this?

P.S. I'm sort of a noob so go easy on me.

[NeddySeagoon]

EddiE314,

Theres no shame in being a noob - we were all like that once.

You find the kernels version at the top of the Makefile in /usr/src/linux.
Find the bit the configure script doesn't like (the fourth lin in the Makefile ?) and change it to an integer.

You may need to rebuild your kernel to keep everybody happy.

Regards,

NeddySeagoon
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[EddiE314]

ok, made the changes to the makefile in /usr/src/linux but i still get the same error, also, if i edit the 4th line and remove or change "-gentoo-r5" it adds a new line below it:

KERNELRELEASE=$(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION)

is there another kernel i can download besides the vanilla and xfs and such, like a generic 2.4.x? because the install doc for these drivers said i must have the same version kernel installed and running that i have the source for in /usr/src/linux.

any ideas?