Kernel update causes wireless to disable

Joe Zeff joe at zeff.us
Thu Nov 14 02:15:09 UTC 2013


On 11/13/2013 01:55 PM, Don Levey wrote:
> As a (perhaps) related question:
> It is my understanding that if I were to use akmod (as opposed to kmod)
> it would dynamically download necessary modules at startup time if an
> updated kernel is detected.

No.  It builds a new kmod as needed at boot.  If it had to download the 
module, you'd be stuck if the new kmod wasn't ready yet.


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