Problems with installing serial port USB adapter drivers
by KeepingEvilMSAway from LinuxQuestions.org on (#56CZH)
Hi there,
I have a very very old mouse that uses a USB adapter & I won't give up the mouse b/c it's saved my wrists, arms & hands from years of pain & allows me to work very fast.
I want to move over to Linux from MS & this is the one thing that would stop me so I'm hoping someone can help us.
We are still having problems doing this.
My geek friend has been helping me (he's a Win guy) using this site - https://www.usb-drivers.org/usb-seri...ntu-linux.html
It is the one that's a Tripplite example, but it may not be the exact model as the pic looks different than the one I have which I bought back in 2000 or so.
We are on the last step #18 trying to install the driver, but when we go to install it from the command, it doesn't work.
This is the error we get
sudo apt-get install tripplite
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package tripplite
Then we went to Tripplite, got the drivers from there & followed their instructions to install it, & got this other error..
mint@mint:~/Downloads/Linux/Redhat9$ make && sudo make install
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4/include -I/usr/src/linux-2.4/drivers/usb/serial -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Wno-unused -DMODULE -c pl2303.c
pl2303.c:33:10: fatal error: linux/config.h: No such file or directory
#include <linux/config.h>
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
Makefile:45: recipe for target 'pl2303.o' failed
make: *** [pl2303.o] Error 1
Someone else asked us for the steps so we have all of those if you need them, but no one else has been able to help.
Please help so I can move to Mint.
Thanks a ton.
I have a very very old mouse that uses a USB adapter & I won't give up the mouse b/c it's saved my wrists, arms & hands from years of pain & allows me to work very fast.
I want to move over to Linux from MS & this is the one thing that would stop me so I'm hoping someone can help us.
We are still having problems doing this.
My geek friend has been helping me (he's a Win guy) using this site - https://www.usb-drivers.org/usb-seri...ntu-linux.html
It is the one that's a Tripplite example, but it may not be the exact model as the pic looks different than the one I have which I bought back in 2000 or so.
We are on the last step #18 trying to install the driver, but when we go to install it from the command, it doesn't work.
This is the error we get
sudo apt-get install tripplite
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package tripplite
Then we went to Tripplite, got the drivers from there & followed their instructions to install it, & got this other error..
mint@mint:~/Downloads/Linux/Redhat9$ make && sudo make install
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4/include -I/usr/src/linux-2.4/drivers/usb/serial -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Wno-unused -DMODULE -c pl2303.c
pl2303.c:33:10: fatal error: linux/config.h: No such file or directory
#include <linux/config.h>
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
Makefile:45: recipe for target 'pl2303.o' failed
make: *** [pl2303.o] Error 1
Someone else asked us for the steps so we have all of those if you need them, but no one else has been able to help.
Please help so I can move to Mint.
Thanks a ton.