[64studio-devel] Installing drivers with gcc-4.0 instead of gcc-4.1

[Toni Haapanen]

Hi,

I managed to install acx111 driver for a wireless card called D-Link 
DWL-G650+, and now i'm happily running 32-bit version of 64-Studio 
(2.6.17-2-multimedia-486 kernel) on my IBM T30 laptop.

In order to install the driver, i had to replace gcc-4.1 with an older 
version, gcc-4.0, because i could not find a new version of 
acx111/acx100 that could be installed with gcc-4.1.

This was possible through following instuctions by Yohann, originally 
given for nvidia Twinview graphic driver:
http://www.music.columbia.edu/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2007-January/041502.html

<http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2006/09/05/debian/pool/main/g/gcc-4.0/cpp-4.0_4.0.3-7_i386.deb>


Fetch the packages:

# wget 
http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2006/09/05/debian/pool/main/g/gcc-4.0/gcc-4.0-base_4.0.3-7_i386.deb
# wget 
http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2006/09/05/debian/pool/main/g/gcc-4.0/cpp-4.0_4.0.3-7_i386.deb
# wget 
http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2006/09/05/debian/pool/main/g/gcc-4.0/gcc-4.0_4.0.3-7_i386.deb


Install:

# dpkg -i gcc-4.0-base_4.0.3-7_i386.deb
# dpkg -i cpp-4.0_4.0.3-7_i386.deb
# dpkg -i gcc-4.0_4.0.3-7_i386.deb


Finally, gcc-4.0 had to be set as default, instead of 4.1:

# ln -sf gcc-4.0 /usr/bin/gcc


After this it was possible build and run the acx driver.

I assume this would apply to 64-bit as well. Those three packages just 
have to be amd64-versions, available at 
http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2006/09/05/debian/pool/main/g/gcc-4.0/

I'm not quite sure if this belongs to a development list in the first 
place, but I wanted to share this issue, because I think it may be 
useful for those struggling with similar gcc-related problems.

Greetings,
Toni

P.S. I'm amazed how well this aging laptop actually runs Ardour, 
Hydrogen and Qsynth at the same time, with 5.33 msec latency or even 
less. And i only have T30's default sound card!