Installing driver from 2002, header issues

[sebastr]

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Hello to all scary Linux people!

I am porting a Python program to Linux (which I'm a first time user of). The program uses ADAM modules for which I need the driver installed. My problem is compiling a file "usbserial.c" into "usbserial.o" in order to do makefile install.

I've replaced the config.h with autoconf.h. I entered "sudo apt-get upgrade", though I don't know why. Now my src folder looks like this:

linux-headers-2.6.38-8
linux-headers-2.6.38-8-generic
linux-headers-2.6.38-8-generic-pae

ERROR MESSAGE from typing "gcc usbserial.c":
"
In file included from usbserial.c 270:0:
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.38-8-generic/include/linux/init.h :4:28: Fatal error
:linux/compiler.h No such file or directory
"

/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.38-8-generic/include/linux/compiler.h does in fact exist.

Thank you for any and all help.

[Irithori]

.o is the commonly used suffix for 2.4 kernels.
These are old. Or rather: ancient

As kernel code has evolved since then, I don´t think one can easily compile a 2.4 module for a 2.6 kernel.

On the good side: usbserial.ko is a standard kernelmodule.
*Any* distribution has this.

It should already be loaded, if you have a "usb to serial" device connected.
Check with

lsmod |grep serial

If not, try:

modprobe usbserial

and watch dmesg and tail -f /var/log/syslog

[sebastr]

Thanks for the reply, Irithori The commands seems helpful for the future.

Turns out we didn't even need the driver (usb-to-serial device)! Starting to like this OS.