I have an Conexant HCF modem and a wireless adapter than needs a more current wlan-ng driver. I've got the drivers (code, that is -- I have to "make" them).
Question is, how can I install them when booted from the CD?
I am assuming that actually running "make" won't work, for two reasons:
1) the kernel source code doesn't appear to be installed
2) a lot of key directories (including /lib/modules) are Read Only
At any rate, actually trying to compile them results in errors I can't quite work around.
But I've also tried compiling them on a hard-drive install with source installed -- which did work (for the hard drive install, that is). So in theory, shouldn't I just be able to put the drivers on a floppy, then "modprobe" them in to place during a live-CD session?
The two problems I've had trying were:
1) modprobe seems to only want to look in /lib/modules for modules (a place I can't write-to), and can't be coerced to look elsewhere
2) frankly, I can't exactly figure out if I am getting all the files I need to copy, nor whether there are other dependencies that need to be set-up before my modules would would work. Do I need to do something to "modules.conf", for example? Are there files outside of /lib/modules that need to be copied too?
All in all, I'm pretty lost here -- anybody have any tips? Thanks in advance!
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