[tlinux-users:07696] Re: Infrarred and remote control

"Also sprach Paul Koufalas:"
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> I installed lirc source code using
> 
> sudo apt-get install lirc-modules-source

That's irrelevant (to me at least). How you do what do is not the
issue, you're doing the wrong thing - you want to  compile code for
the 2.6 kernel. That necesitates two things: source for a driver
aimed at the 2.6  kernel, and a makefile aimed at it.

Arranging for compilation of third party drivers outside the 2.6 source
tree is notoriously difficult, so I  would expect that you would patch
the kernel source tree and then reconfigure your kernel make to compile
the driver you were interested in as a module, and then compile it
(i.e., type "make menuconfig modules" in the kernel source dir).

I believe, indeed I know, but have studiously avoided investigating,
that debian has special packages that do something of the sort, called
something like kdebs.

I would imagine that downloading your driver source via apt succeeds
because it always does - you would need to run debuild or some special
debian kernel thing afterwards in the apt-downloaded driver source tree
to see what else is needed for a source build.


Peter