[wellylug] missing autoconf.h

[firstname lastname]

Hi Geraint. This is the first time i have had a home computer so i am pretty 
naive and unsophistacated in all this.. and i have never used any form of 
linux before. my other constraint is that not having a working modem i have 
to search for answers durring hte day (at work) and then go home and try to 
impliment them at night.

so i have this modem card thing that i plugged into the innards of the pc 
(is this what you meant by 'plugging hte modem in?)  and to save me having 
to come back tomorrow all dissapointed and rather embarassed can we clear up 
  the run harddrake part. does that mean gointo the terminal window and type 
'run harddrake' or 'harddrake' or is there a way to run it from the menu or 
mandrake control centre.

i realise these are dumb questions and that there is probably a lot of 
laughter out there but i am interested in getting this thing to work and can 
bear a little riducule.  my work was selling off its old pcs and so i got a 
couple of P2s thinking i could be able to run linux on them and the kids 
could email their grandparents. can you help keep the dream alive?

>From: "Geraint Jones" <g.jones at french-maid.co.nz>
>Reply-To: wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz
>To: <wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz>
>Subject: RE: [wellylug] missing autoconf.h
>Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 08:43:45 +1300
>
>Have you tried plugging the modem in and then running harddrake ? it may
>well detact & install it for you
>
>
>
>Geraint Jones
>Systems Administrator
>French Maid Foods Limited
>www.french-maid.net
>
>Tel:  +64 (0)4 568 2687
>Fax:  +64 (0)4 568 2345
>Mob: +64 (0)21 739 240
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: wellylug-admin at lists.wellylug.org.nz
>[mailto:wellylug-admin at lists.wellylug.org.nz] On Behalf Of firstname
>lastname
>Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 8:32 AM
>To: wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz
>Subject: [wellylug] missing autoconf.h
>
>ongoing inability to connect to the outside world (other than at work)
>
>i have installed a winmodem (intel 536EP v.92) and downloaded the
>drivers
>from the intel site.
>However when i run through the install process i get as far as entering
>the
>command "make 536" when i get this error
>Make 536
>module pre compile check
>current running kernel is 2.6.3-7mdk
>/lib/modules.. autoconf.h does not exist
>please install kernel source
>make: ***[check] Error 1
>
>can anyone tell me where i can find autoconf.h and the simple(?) steps
>to
>get the winmodem installed and running?
>i am trying to run mandrake 10.0
>
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