How install a driver without installer tools

Question

I would like to install a WIFI driver on my system but I don't know how.

I'm running a Linux OS: uname -a

Linux computer 2.6.37+ #854 Fri Jul 31 13:26:15 AEST 2015 armv7l GNU/Linux

And when I'm trying to run the command make I got this error:

-sh: make: not found

I read many post about a path missing in the PATH variable but everything seem to be alright echo $PATH

/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

And I can't run these command apt-get or dpkg to install make package. The Linux OS was built for an embedded system that why is a very light system.

So what is the way for me to install and run a driver in these conditions?

Answer 1

Normally, we need to do cross-compiling on host for the binary which was needed on embedded device.

To set-up cross-compiling env on host, you need arm toolchain which should be available from the vendor website of your embedded device.

To be simple, you can also try to run linaro rootfs(http://www.linaro.org/developers/) on your device, which can provide build env on arm-based embedded device.