Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Fri, May 27, 2005 2:27 am, Gabriel M. Beddingfield said: > >> This sounds like you need to re-emerge the driver for your NIC. For >> example, every time I upgrade my kernel I have to do something like this: >> >> # cd /usr/src >> # rm linux >> # ln -s newkernel linux > > If you set the symlink USE flag, this is taken care of automatically when > emerging a new kernel source.
Thanks, I didn't know that was there. However, I'm not sure that's what I want unless the USE flag also updates .config, builds the new kernel, installs it, updates grub, emerges all my other kernel-module-dependent ebuilds, and then tries to figure out why the new kernel doesn't work because someone updated the functionality of some driver (with a *minor* side-effect that it breaks my system). Because of this somewhat long admin process, I often don't want the symlink updated until I can get around to building the new kernel. US $ 0.02 -- G a b r i e l M . B e d d i n g f i e l d -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list