tarball drivers to RPM format...

[Joe Brouhard, MCP]

Hey..

I got a friend in Chillicothe, Missouri who is getting ready to set up a
flavour of Linux, e-smith, as his broadband gateway, but e-smith does not
have a command line interpreter, and will only install RPM's.

The drivers necessary for his broadband device, which is an Orinco Wireless
receiver, (he's on broadband much like Sprint's wireless broadband), and the
drivers need to be compiled.

I'm wondering if anyone here knows how to build rpm's from tarballs.  Please
reqly privately if you can give me and my friend a hand.

Thanks!

Joseph N. Brouhard
CompTIA A+ Certified Professional
Microsoft Certified Professional
jbrouhard at centurytel.net