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I am currently trying to install a driver through terminal. It is for the USB UART XR21B1411 serial port adapter. I installed it in the past, but cannot remember how I did it. Here is a link to the driver: https://www.maxlinear.com/content/document.ashx?id=21651
As you can see, there is a Makefile, two .h files and two .c files.

How might I install this driver? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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From the readme file:

Installation
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* Compile and install the common usb serial driver module

    # make
    # insmod ./xr_usb_serial_common.ko

Which means: Open a command prompt; switch to root context (the # prompt), execute make, then execute insmod with the provided command line.

If I'm a bit abrupt here, I apologize, but you are going to find a lot of similarly abbreviated instructions while you're working in Linux.

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  • Yes, I already completed those steps. I am in the root context and when I try to execute 'make', I get the following message: "No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop."
    – Ben G
    Commented Nov 5, 2021 at 13:26
  • And you are in the directory where the zip file was unpacked? Because there is a makefile in that zip, and if you are in that directory make should have found it. Switching to root context with su - will also change your current directory to root's home.
    – tsc_chazz
    Commented Nov 5, 2021 at 17:00

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