[ubuntu-uk] Advent Touch Print printer ....

[Rowan Berkeley]

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.