Comment 28 for bug 927782

My answers below, others may have better / newer information.

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Hunter Smith <email address hidden> wrote:
> Been trying to follow how this has been made available, I saw the
> backports module. But it sounds like if you upgrade the kernel it breaks
> the driver and you have to reinstall it again. Has this been added to
> the Kernel for Ubuntu 12.04 or will it be added to the next kernel
> update?

It is not in the 12.04.1 distribution. The last time I spoke to my
daughters about updates, they had to re-do the installation from third
party sources after a kernel update (this is about one week ago).

>
> 12.04 is our new standard for our development team and I've got 5 new
> computers that I'm deploying that have the AR8161 in them and it would
> be awesome if I could just pop in a live CD for 12.04 and the ethernet
> card would work instead of having to set it up via wireless and then
> installing the driver by hand (our developers need more power, hence the
> new machines).

Hunter, based on my experience with my two daughters' Dells, you will
not realize what you hope, unless there is a 12.04.2 release that
fixes the problem.

You will either need to get the driver and a very brief install script
on a memory stick so that you can add the driver after the install,
and then re-run the script each time a new kernel arrives, or you will
have to find a newer kernel as per the suggestion of another recent
post.

> Would also be very helpful with a clonezilla image server for creating
> images of new windows machines that have these cards since we've got a
> couple of desktops and laptops that we can't make images of and that's
> the NIC they are being shipped with.

I can't help you there, sorry.
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