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Whenever I do a fresh install of elementaryOS, I need to connect to my phone via USB-tethering to install dkms, then install my USB WiFi drivers (which I store in my secondary hard drive). This probably doesn't affect laptop users as their WiFi chip usually works OOTB but for desktop users, it may be a problem, especially if they have an unsupported WiFi card.
Proposal
Include dkms OOTB so users can install any number of drivers that they have stored in say, a USB stick and be able to use their machines.
Notes
I do realise that if a user needed to install external drivers, they should probably just copy over the dkms deb file as well (including any required dependencies). This is mostly for end-user convenience and perhaps also convenient to future OEMs to install any required drivers they need.
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Problem
Whenever I do a fresh install of elementaryOS, I need to connect to my phone via USB-tethering to install
dkms
, then install my USB WiFi drivers (which I store in my secondary hard drive). This probably doesn't affect laptop users as their WiFi chip usually works OOTB but for desktop users, it may be a problem, especially if they have an unsupported WiFi card.Proposal
Include
dkms
OOTB so users can install any number of drivers that they have stored in say, a USB stick and be able to use their machines.Notes
I do realise that if a user needed to install external drivers, they should probably just copy over the
dkms
deb file as well (including any required dependencies). This is mostly for end-user convenience and perhaps also convenient to future OEMs to install any required drivers they need.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: