Juan Carlos wrote: >I'm sure there are people out there who have to build kernel modules >for their hardware as well. But it is a bit of a pain to keep doing >that each time there is a newe kernel security update. So is anyone >using scripts to automate this process that they would like to share? >It's not like each computer has different hardware, it is all the same >but not all of them have tools like gcc and kernel source installed. >Only one computer where I compile stuff. Easier to maintain this way. >What do you think? > > Although it's not a hardware module, I have to rebuild a kernel module for MPPE in order to use pptpclient for VPN. Like your situation, this module has to be recompiled every time I upgrade the kernel. The pptpclient project recommends "DKMS" (Dynamic Kernel Module Support) which is sponsored by Dell. It works great on my system; every time the kernel is upgraded, the module is automatically recompiled and installed at boot time. Maybe this might work for you... http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml#dkms http://linux.dell.com/dkms/dkms.html It has pretty decent commands for tracking which kernel modules exist for which kernel versions, etc. -Greg