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fiod

Member

Registered: 2007-04-02

Posts: 205

Post kernel installation script

Hey

I have a wireless driver that should be re-compiled whenever I upgrade the system's kernel.

I wish to automate this task, so that whenever a new kernel is installed using pacman, the driver
will be automatically re-compiled and installed.

Can you think of a way to write a script that does exactly that?
The main problem (as I see it) is to identify when a new kernel is being installed.

Tnx
fiod

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Post kernel installation script

I'm not going to answer your question (yet, anyway) - instead I have to ask: which driver? More specifically, are you sure we don't have it packaged already? AFAIK, the only ones we don't have are the ones that don't build against the current kernel version.

fiod

Member

Registered: 2007-04-02

Posts: 205

Re: Post kernel installation script

Hey

The driver is rt73 by Ralinktech (www.ralinktech.com).

The installation is described in the wiki (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/RT73_Wireless).
I didn't find any package in pacman that contains this driver.

Tnx for the reply
Fiod