Installing drivers for ACP USB 2.0 to RS232 cable.

One job I wanted to use my AA1 for is as a portable terminal emulator, so I need a terminal application and a serial port on my AA1. I installed GTKterm and bought an ACP USB 2.0 to RS232 cable adapter, which comes with Linux drivers in a tar file.

I tried plugging the cable in without making any other changes, but the AA1 doesn't recognize it as a serial port, so GTKterm complains about not having any serial devices.

The "driver" supplied with the ACP cable seems to be based on an ftdi_sio driver file. The contents of the tar file are just an ftdi_sio.c file, an ftdi_sio.h file, a Makefile and Rules.make.

There don't seem to be any installation instructions, but I untar'ed it into a temp directory and tried "make" - got "make not found"

My questions:

1) What do I need to do to install make?
2) Can I just "make", "make install" to get the driver working?
3) Anyone with any other suggestions or experiences?

TIA

 

On compiling missing modules:
http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=608
( I don't think you need to do the compiling on another computer. )

Maybe this link is better, for getting the development-packages:
http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=1993

In the folder /boot you can find the config-file of the running kernel.
From that file:

That is the line you need to change.