Kernel updates and the restricted modules....

[Mario Vukelic]

On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 07:49 +0200, Clayton wrote:
> Why do I constantly need to go and manually update the
> linux-restricted-modules?

Do you have linux-restricted-modules-generic  installed? (Or the
linux-restricted-modules-* for the type of kernel you happen to have
installed)

Note the description: this is a meta-package whose whole purpose is to
depend on the latest restricted modules to make sure they get installed.
This has always worked for me since Ubuntu 4.10

mario at chronic: ~ $ aptitude show linux-restricted-modules-generic
Package: linux-restricted-modules-generic
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
Version: 2.6.24.18.20
Priority: optional
Section: restricted/metapackages
Maintainer: Ubuntu Kernel Team <kernel-team at lists.ubuntu.com>
Uncompressed Size: 53.2k
Depends: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-18-generic
Description: Restricted Linux modules for generic kernels
 This package will always depend on the latest restricted modules
available for generic kernels.