[NCLUG] Fedora 6 and the RaLink rt2500 wireless card

Bob Proulx bob at proulx.com
Sun Dec 10 12:14:48 MST 2006


David Braley wrote:
> > In general, I try to avoid any card that you have to build your own
> > drivers.
> 
> Why? Is there a problem when doing updates, especially kernels that will
> render the driver unusable? That would be a bummer if I had to
> re-install the driver for this card each time I did a kernel update.

Yes.  Every time you take a kernel update you would need to recompile
all of your external kernel modules against the new kernel.

Bob



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