wi-fi drivers

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Mon Jan 17 12:41:34 UTC 2022


On Sun, 16 Jan 2022 at 21:35, Slade Watkins via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> hi,
> is it possible to autobuild drivers at startup, or have a script do so for me in one click?

Sure, it is called DKMS.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DKMS

> unfortunately the drivers I need for my wi-fi card are included in Linux kernel 5.16 which Ubuntu currently does not use (since it _just_ released last week).

In that case I think the easiest options are not ideal:

[1] wait until Ubuntu includes this kernel
[2] switch to a rolling-release distro (I quite like openSUSE Tumbleweed myself)

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