From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>
To: Connor Kuehl <connor.kuehl@outlook.com>
Cc: kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org>
Subject: Re: Which package typically includes network controller drivers
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 18:25:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH8yC8=fguXOxgRUZ=02dByeeP0sOOkSL667XVhnbLsBvf9Tdg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BN8PR14MB2580452E1127E244D72F56D59C700@BN8PR14MB2580.namprd14.prod.outlook.com>
On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 5:08 PM Connor Kuehl <connor.kuehl@outlook.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/15/19 1:18 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> >
> > My apologies if this one is off-topic.
> >
> > I recently encountered a bad apt update using Ubuntu. The 5.0.0-36
> > kernel was installed, but it was missing network card drivers. I tried
> > to modprobe the network card drivers but they were missing.
> >
> > I was able to recover by standing up a VM, copying the *.deb files
> > from /var/cache/apt/archive, sneaker netting to the wounded machine,
> > and then manually re-installing the packages.
> >
> > My question is, which package typically includes the network card
> > drivers? I believe the choices are
> > linux-modules or linux-modules-extras.
> ...
>
> Your instinct is correct though. The most common modules that aren't
> built-in to the kernel (i.e., compiled as CONFIG_BLAH=y) are in the
> linux-modules package. There's a good chance your driver (should be) in
> there. The linux-modules-extras are basically "everything else".
One last question, if you don't mind...
I'm wondering who/what creates linux-modules adn linux-modules-extras.
I would not be surprised if the kernel's scripts created a rpm by
default. (But I would be surprised to learn it created, say, Pacman
packages).
Does the kernel's build scripts perform any packaging? Or is it left
to a distro?
Jeff
_______________________________________________
Kernelnewbies mailing list
Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-15 23:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-15 21:18 Which package typically includes network controller drivers Jeffrey Walton
2019-11-15 22:08 ` Connor Kuehl
2019-11-15 23:25 ` Jeffrey Walton [this message]
2019-11-16 2:24 ` Connor Kuehl
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to='CAH8yC8=fguXOxgRUZ=02dByeeP0sOOkSL667XVhnbLsBvf9Tdg@mail.gmail.com' \
--to=noloader@gmail.com \
--cc=connor.kuehl@outlook.com \
--cc=kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).