[ubuntu-uk] Zoostorm laptop at ebuyer.com

Alan Pope alan.pope at canonical.com
Fri Jan 18 20:25:16 UTC 2013


On 18/01/13 02:36, Rob Beard wrote:
> I was under the impression that you can configure things like drivers to
> re-compile when a kernel changes, not that I know exactly how to
> configure it to do so (is it something to do with DKMS?).
>

Yes, DKMS does that.

However sometimes (not often) the upstream driver breaks when a new 
kernel comes out which might need manual intervention. If this scares 
you then choose a machine which has non-stupid wifi if possible.

Cheers,
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Alan Pope
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