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Re: How to update the Kernel, keeping the proprietary modules.
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"Alec T. Habig" <[log in to unmask]>
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Alec T. Habig
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Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:12:50 -0500
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Take a look at the "dkms" program (in the rpmforge repo).  It manages a
build environment which makes it easy to keep drivers rebuilt in synch
with the kernel.  Not sure about adaptec, but my LSI card's drivers came
with all the right scripts to plug into dkms.

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 	    Alec Habig, University of Minnesota Duluth Physics Dept.
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