My answers below, others may have better / newer information. On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Hunter Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Been trying to follow how this has been made available, I saw the > backports module. But it sounds like if you upgrade the kernel it breaks > the driver and you have to reinstall it again. Has this been added to > the Kernel for Ubuntu 12.04 or will it be added to the next kernel > update?
It is not in the 12.04.1 distribution. The last time I spoke to my daughters about updates, they had to re-do the installation from third party sources after a kernel update (this is about one week ago). > > 12.04 is our new standard for our development team and I've got 5 new > computers that I'm deploying that have the AR8161 in them and it would > be awesome if I could just pop in a live CD for 12.04 and the ethernet > card would work instead of having to set it up via wireless and then > installing the driver by hand (our developers need more power, hence the > new machines). Hunter, based on my experience with my two daughters' Dells, you will not realize what you hope, unless there is a 12.04.2 release that fixes the problem. You will either need to get the driver and a very brief install script on a memory stick so that you can add the driver after the install, and then re-run the script each time a new kernel arrives, or you will have to find a newer kernel as per the suggestion of another recent post. > Would also be very helpful with a clonezilla image server for creating > images of new windows machines that have these cards since we've got a > couple of desktops and laptops that we can't make images of and that's > the NIC they are being shipped with. I can't help you there, sorry. -- Chris Hermansen · [email protected] C'est ma façon de parler. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/927782 Title: include the Atheros AR8131/AR8151/AR8152/AR8161/AR8162 Ethernet driver To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/927782/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
