Hi, On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 21:50 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: > days, maybe weeks. If not months. Right now for example, I have to > rebuild my kernel - to enable one option (VESA) and disable one other > (SMP, which causes the system to freeze with the rt61 driver). You should know that rebuilding the kernel is strongly discouraged (and unsupported). If a driver freezes the kernel, we should preferably get the driver fixed. > A very good thing to do would be to provide source RPM packages for > various drivers. I don't know exactly if this is feasible, but let me > give you an example. To install and configure an RT2500 wireless card > with Debian, all you have to do is this: The RPMForge source packages are available, but this is not what you want. Dag has provided some nifty dkms driver packages. These packages compile a module for the running kernel post-install, and after booting a new kernel (e.g. after a kernel update). No more manual module compilation is necessary. While it may not be the preferred option for servers, I certainly like it elsewhere. > # apt-get install module-assistant > # module-assistant prepare --> this fetches all the tools necessary for > compilation > # apt-get install rt2500-source > # module-assistant auto-install rt2500-source --> builds the module as a > .deb package and installs it for the running kernel > # modprobe rt2500 > # ifconfig -a > Etcetera... dead easy. (Well, no, dead easy is Ubuntu that already *has* > all these modules available by default :o/ ) How about yum install nvidia-x11-drv or yum install dkms-ipw3945 ? to name just two examples. Seems less cumbersome to me :). --Daniel