On 12/04/13 13:38, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
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?
A framework for that already exists. It's called DKMS. Here's the Ubuntu help doc on it:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DKMS -- JimP -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
