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make fails

I've followed these instructions, but am a total newb at compiling kernel modules, and am having trouble during the make step.

A couple of things I had to differently to get to the make step were:

tar xvf linux-source*.tar.bz2 (note no z option)

then i had to cd into linux-source-2.6.17/drivers/usb/serial instead of just drivers/usb/serial

however after patching make fails with the following error:

root@my-laptop:/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.17/drivers/usb/serial# make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=`pwd`
make: Entering directory `/lib/modules/2.6.17-11-386/build'
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
make: Leaving directory `/lib/modules/2.6.17-11-386/build'

any suggestions?

this is for a merlin s620

Thanks!

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