Sagem F@ST 840 User Manual

Installation of driver USB under linux

Edition n°3 01-13-2005

Distributions Mandrake, Fedora Core, SuSE

This document explains step by step the installation of the module eagle-usb
v1.9.9 of the task force eagle-usb.org, a patch Sagem must be applied there to
make this driver compatible with the modem eagle III

Necessary

The installation must be carried out by having the rights of the administrator
'root'.
Compiler GCC must be installed.
The sources of the linux core must be installed.

Installation

Stage 1 - working directory

Start a terminal and place in session root with the order su - (the password
root is required). Copy the archive file under the directory /tmp and unpack it
with the order 'tar xzf archive_file_name'.

Place under the directory lately created, eagle-usb.

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Stage 2 - Application of the patch_sagem patch

It's now necessary to apply the patch_sagem patch so that the driver eagle-usb
can be used with the eagle III modem. Type the './appli_patch' order to carry
out the update of the driver sources.

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Stage 3 - automatic configuration

The configuration for the compilation of the driver is automatic, it indicates
also the missing modules (ex:kernel sources) where not having the good version
(ex:gcc).
To start the configuration place under the directory eagle-usb-src and type the
order './configure'

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