On 12/04/13 19:31, Jim Price wrote:
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
Thanks, in fact I looked at that once before but decided it was a bit
over my head. I can see it's the right answer, though.
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