Now that I am trying to install Debian from a CD, I found that the
network  card was not supported,  I read that some dude had found a
driver for the NIC in a MSI-M662 laptot, I myself don't know what kind
of NIC is in this machine, I am going by what the dude claims.
However, after downloading the alleged driver, I had to compile it,
for that I need to have 'make', but this machine does not have the
make program, after downloading it from the GNU' FTP site, I found out
that I also have to build this program using 'make'.
As you can see I am in a vicious circle, can anyone help me get out of
it.

TIA

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jamiil wrote:
> However, after downloading the alleged driver, I had to compile it,
> for that I need to have 'make', but this machine does not have the
> make program, after downloading it from the GNU' FTP site, I found out
> that I also have to build this program using 'make'.
> As you can see I am in a vicious circle, can anyone help me get out of
> it.

Install the C development tools for whatever distribution you're
currently running.

Chris

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On Nov 8, 12:51 pm, jamiil <jalqa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Now that I am trying to install Debian from a CD, I found that the
> network  card was not supported,  I read that some dude had found a
> driver for the NIC in a MSI-M662 laptot, I myself don't know what kind
> of NIC is in this machine, I am going by what the dude claims.
> However, after downloading the alleged driver, I had to compile it,
> for that I need to have 'make', but this machine does not have the
> make program, after downloading it from the GNU' FTP site, I found out
> that I also have to build this program using 'make'.
> As you can see I am in a vicious circle, can anyone help me get out of
> it.

GNU make comes with a shell script to compile it, for exactly this
reason.  If you'd read the README file you'd have seen this.

Also, since this is Debian, you should be able to get a precompiled
package of make.  Try running "apt-get install make" or "apt-get
install gmake".

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On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:06:33 -0800, fjblurt wrote:

>
> GNU make comes with a shell script to compile it, for exactly this
> reason.  If you'd read the README file you'd have seen this.
>
> Also, since this is Debian, you should be able to get a precompiled
> package of make.  Try running "apt-get install make" or "apt-get
> install gmake".

I don't think he has network working, so he prolly cant make apt-get work?

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On Nov 8, 10:46 pm, jellybean stonerfish <stonerf...@geocities.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:06:33 -0800, fjblurt wrote:
> 
> 
>
> I don't think he has network working, so he prolly cant make apt-get work?

apt-get will also fetch from the installation CD, which probably has
make on it.

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On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:51:07 -0800, fjblurt wrote:

> On Nov 8, 10:46 pm, jellybean stonerfish <stonerf...@geocities.com>
> wrote: 
>
> apt-get will also fetch from the installation CD, which probably has
> make on it.

Oh, I thought maybe the build essentials were not on the cd.

never mind

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On Nov 9, 7:29 am, jellybean stonerfish <stonerf...@geocities.com>
wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:51:07 -0800, fjblurt wrote: 
> 
> 
>
> Oh, I thought maybe the build essentials were not on the cd.
>
> never mind

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