A text editor. Every distro will come with one, whether it be pico , Emacs , VIM , or gedit for you GUI-lovers. Now onto the good stuff in the HowTo. If you're curious if it's easier on 2.2 or 2.4, I'd definitely say it's a draw. These instructions were done with version 0.7.1 of the EM8300 driver and version 0.4.3 of Xine .
Commands are in boldface , as usual.
Extract the file EM8300 drivers. This creates a folder called em8300-0.7.1 . Change this to correspond to where your kernel sources are installed. If you're a European user and use PAL, then you're in luck. No need to do any more editing.