The O/P requested advice on how to get a particular device working and, with respect to the O/P the comment that they were having difficuly in installing a driver suggested to me that they were new to GNU/Linux.
The O/P did NOT ask (until another poster mentioned this) about configuring the kernel, and posts then moved to whether the driver in question would be in a newer kernel (the file linked is 5 years old, the original driver was a decade ago so a newer kernel is largely irrelevent)
I agree with much of what you say; it would be ideal if everybody utilised LFS and built their own drivers; but I'd suggest that comes after topics such as kernel configuration which, in turn, came after software compilation and driver installation, which might (in turn) would follow advice on installing a popular distribution (Mint, Ubuntu et al). I don't expect anybody to advise a user to start off on Gentoo, or even Arch Linux.
It may well be that the O/P has no interest in developing skills beyond those of a user, rather than an expert on GNU/Linux, and merely wants to use a particular device that they possess. That is their prerogative.
I agree there is nothing magic about compiling a kernel. However I would suggest that there are many linux users that have never compiled a kernel, in the same way there are possibly millions that have never used the 'power'-shell when running Windows, and new users should be encouraged rather than it be suggested that you 'have to' compile a kernel as a first step.
Regards
P.
--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, "Paul" <pfrederick1@...> wrote:
> You cannot recover from a miffed kernel configuration? Is it really that hard to keep a kernel that boots on a system while a new one is being configured and tested? Because if you do that then you always have the backup kernel to run. You'd be in no worse shape than when you started. Believe it or not some pretty clever people came up with this whole system, so that even idiots can manage to work with it.
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