Will it ever recognize my USB Sagem Fast 840 DSL modem?

[Fragile]

Hello everyone,I have kubuntu 6.06 LTS and I want to have internet on it...Bad luck,I have a USB modem(Sagem Fast 840) that I can't make it work..Its manual had certain instructions for installing a patch but I'm not a kernel hacker so I had a lot of problems..First I couldn't install the c compiler(gcc..if you could tell me how to install it...) so I quitted and tried to install the modem in someone else's PC but it was all errors like"cannot found kernel sources"..
I'd really like to know if it is possible to install the modem or am I trying in vain?And if I can,is there a more simple way than kernel compiling?I'm a total noob so I often make a real mess..
Thanx for any answer!

[sproot]

Re: Will it ever recognize my USB Sagem Fast 840 DSL modem?

To install gcc:

sudo apt-get install build-essential

I can't help you with kernal recompilation though....

[lec2004]

Re: Will it ever recognize my USB Sagem Fast 840 DSL modem?

Probally not worth the time it would take to "maybe" get it working.

[Fragile]

Re: Will it ever recognize my USB Sagem Fast 840 DSL modem?

Well to be more specific I wrote ./configure (trying to apply the patch) and I got "error:kernel-sources not found!"
What's wrong(actually missing)??