Re: [ubuntu-uk] Locking in the wireless drivers

2013-04-23 Thread Neil Greenwood
On Apr 23, 2013 9:22 PM, "Tyler J. Wagner" wrote: > > On 2013-04-23 20:47, Rowan Berkeley wrote: > > Ah, yes, DKMS again, that explains it. Now if only we could just have DKMS > > packaged up for automatic installation in the Synaptic package manager. As > > it is, you need quite a bit of savvy to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Locking in the wireless drivers

2013-04-23 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-04-23 20:47, Rowan Berkeley wrote: > Ah, yes, DKMS again, that explains it. Now if only we could just have DKMS > packaged up for automatic installation in the Synaptic package manager. As > it is, you need quite a bit of savvy to install DKMS, more than I've got, > for sure. You mean, lik

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Locking in the wireless drivers

2013-04-23 Thread Rowan Berkeley
On 23/04/13 20:36, Daniel Llewellyn wrote: Debian (and thus Ubuntu) has the feature of DKMS which allows a package to flag to apt that it needs reconfiguring after a kernel update. AFAIK, dpkg will run the configure step of installation again for those so-flagged packages to give them a chance to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Locking in the wireless drivers

2013-04-23 Thread Daniel Llewellyn
Debian (and thus Ubuntu) has the feature of DKMS which allows a package to flag to apt that it needs reconfiguring after a kernel update. AFAIK, dpkg will run the configure step of installation again for those so-flagged packages to give them a chance to recompile any kernel interfaces. The nvidia

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Locking in the wireless drivers

2013-04-23 Thread Kris Douglas
Hello, I do believe this depends on the card in use, some drivers have slightly different conditions compared to others. I know for example some modules recompile themselves when the kernel is updated. I'm confident Linux Emporium choose devices that work exceptionally well with Linux (or specific

[ubuntu-uk] Locking in the wireless drivers

2013-04-23 Thread Rowan Berkeley
Hi, You recall we talked about the hassle of having to re-install wireless drivers after every kernel update. I've noticed that neither of the Lenovo machines which I got from Linux Emporium suffers from this problem: they've both received multiple kernel updates. So I rang Linux Emporium to