On 12/04/13 13:38, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
On 12/04/13 13:27, Barry Drake wrote:
Oh, I agree entirely. My other printer is a Brother, and
is supported moderately well - although it is a bit of a pain to install
the drivers even with a shell script I have written. Good printer
though.
It's interesting that you mention a shell script there, because I have
become very fond of my Compaq laptop, even though every time it gets a
kernel update I have to reinstall the wireless driver, and I have been
thinking that it ought to be possible to automate the reinstallation.
This is as far as I can think it through: at each startup the script
should check whether wireless is running, and if not it should grab
the driver package (kept in the home folder), and do make, make
install, and modprobe on it. How easy would that be?
I don't know how to detect wireless, but it is probably
straightforward. I guess there is a return code from ping that could be
tested something like: if (ping xyz==-1) ....
But the rest of the script would simply be the steps you take manually.
My Brother installer script contains a whole lot of steps like creating
directories and copying files as well as the installation of four
separate deb packages. I have to run it after every upgrade - thus
twice a year. The script has saved me a lot of effort.
Regards, Barry.
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