Intuitive options for users for automatic updates for stable drivers for 802.11/audio/video

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 6:22 AM, Andy Whitcroft <apw at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 06:21:49PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> Hey guys, I like how sometimes on some vendor sites they have a link
>> to some Debian/Ubuntu package and if the user clicks on it, it
>> magically installs. Was wondering if it would make sense to expand on
>> this and have a link to the respective ubuntu packages for
>> compat-wireless stable releases here:
>>
>> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download/stable/
>
> Cirtainly the default on Ubuntu (and I suspect Debian) is to fire up
> something which can install a .deb if you click on one in the web.  For
> this just having the .deb would probabally do the trick.  Perhaps a link
> into the launchpad librarian (which keeps them forever on a fixed URL)
> might work in this case.

OK thanks.

>> Alternatively, it would be neat that if a device is not detected as
>> supported the user can get a prompt to install some more updated
>> stable drivers and install these. That or some option upon
>> installation which lets it always seek the latests stable driver
>> updates. This might come in handy for video and sounds too, thoughts?
>
> I suspect that Jockey might be able to help here, it can make things
> happen with cirtain hardware for instance.  I am not sure how rich its
> ruleset is, ie. if it can say "if a wireless device is unclaimed" though
> I assume lspci output contains enough information to tell that is true.
> Hrmmm.

A recommended latest stable driver map might be nice here too for each
Ubuntu release.

  Luis