Compiling drivers and RPM's

[Staly_On]

I just downloaded the linuxed based firewall, Endian, "http://www.endian.com/".
The install doesn't work with my Linksys USB200M usb-ethernet adapter.
I am new to linux and I don't know how to get it to work. I see that it recognizes the USB side of the adapter but not the ethernet "side".

I think I have a general idea of what to do. The firewall did not come with the /usr/src directory so I guess I have to download the source files from their website: Updates and Source .

I assume my next step would be to get the drivers for the USB adapter. I think I found them: "asix" mini-driver.

I untar'd it but I don't know what to do next. It unpackaged a lot of .rpm files.
I have no idea what to do next. Can anyone help out?

I think I need to install the .rpm's then recompile the drivers into the kernel.

[chadders]

Use a program called alien. I believe it's in the Debian repository.

Then in the command line type the following:

alien <file.rpm>

It'll turn it into a deb.

Cheers.

[Staly_On]

What will alien do exactly?

I am not sure it is installed? The kernel files, to the best of my knowledge, were not installed when I installed the firewall software from the .iso. I had to download them. I unzipped them and need to know what to do next. Another person told me that there should be a readme file...i will have to check that out tonight when I get home.

[mzilikazi]

Do you absolutely need Endian firewall? There are several free firewalls like Firestarter or Lokkit (GTK) or Guarddog (KDE). So, if you use Gnome or more specifically, if you do not use KDE:

su
apt-get update && apt-get install firestarter

Or if you do use KDE

su
apt-get update && apt-get install guarddog

Of course you can use Gnome apps on KDE and visa-versa but KDE apps on a GTK dekstop are rather ugly and often times require the installation of several KDE specific libraries and such. It is also quite common for you to need some KDE services to run a KDE application like K3B for example.