[NCLUG] Fedora 6 and the RaLink rt2500 wireless card

[Chad Perrin]

On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 01:00:16PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:41:02 -0700
> davbraley at comcast.net (David Braley) wrote:
> > Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > > Yes, you will need to rebuild it for each kernel update. The kernel
> > > doesn't keep a stable ABI (except by accident)... 
> > 
> > I had a feeling this was the case. I have read that Debian has some
> > kind of tool called "ifrename" that can help to manage this kind of
> > thing, letting a system identify a resource based on a unique
> > identifier like a mac address. Of course, that is Debian.
> 
> That's different. Even in Debian on a kernel upgrade all the drivers
> must be recompiled against the new kernel. This is why it's so nice to
> have a driver thats in the mainstream kernel... it's automagically
> updated when the kernel is and breakage is noticed right away. 

. . . unless your OS has a software management system that provides
decent support for installation from source.  I'm pretty sure that
Debian (via "apt-get source" et cetera), Gentoo, and FreeBSD will manage
that sort of thing for you when installing from source, and upgrading
kernels, via their default software management systems.

Of course, I could be mistaken about some of that.

I have no idea whether there's an integrated install-from-source
capability in any of the software management options for Fedora Core.

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