<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Pre-requisites</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.63 "><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Linux Kernel Modules Installation HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Purpose of this Document" HREF="purpose.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Compiler Speed-up" HREF="speedup.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Linux Kernel Modules Installation HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="purpose.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="speedup.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="REQUIRE" >2. Pre-requisites</A ></H1 ><P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P > Before the steps in this document can be applied, the reader must have a working Linux installation in which one can get to the Linux prompt as user <EM >root</EM > since the majority of the steps involved can only be undertaken by the said user. </P ></LI ><LI ><P > The existing kernel may be compiled either to use modules or not to use modules, and can even display error messages during the boot-up procedure as a result of modules being configured which aren't available at the moment, providing the above condition is met. </P ></LI ><LI ><P > The source tree for the current kernel is assumed to be found rooted at <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/usr/src/linux</TT > and that is also assumed to be the current directory throughout this document at the start of any sequence of commands to be issued. </P ></LI ></UL ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="purpose.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="speedup.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Purpose of this Document</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Compiler Speed-up</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >