[WBEL-users] Driver removed

[Johnny Hughes]

On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 09:19 +0800, Plug N Play wrote:
> Hi all,
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> Greetings…
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> A quick question to the list. 
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> I just installed Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Software on my
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> Whitebox Linux 3.0 Respin 1. All are working fine until I update
> packages
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> using yum. After update finished and the system was rebooted. My
> installed and
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> working lancard was gone again. I think it may be because of the
> kernel upgrade to
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> (Whitebox Linux 3.0 Respin 2).
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> How can I prevent my driver from being removed again in the future if
> I do an upgrade to my
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> kernel. 
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Drivers are Kernel Modules ... when you upgrade your kernel, you have to
rebuild the modules for that kernel. Since that driver is not a standard
kernel module (all the standard ones are rebuilt when building the
kernel), it has to be rebuilt manually after every kernel upgrade.

That is how kernel modules work :)
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