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How can you add permanently drivers to ubuntu

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Hi,

I am in contact with tevii company ( http://www.tevii.com ).
They want to add their drivers permanently to ubuntu but they are not sure how they can do it.
what they should do?

thanks for helping.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Download the driver for your device and extract it, you will most likely need to compile it so you will need to install build-essential in software centre. You will most likely need to compile he driver after each kernel upgrade too.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

Seems to be firmware files too, put these in /lib/firmware may be all it needs :)

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SOME1 (dotanpo) said : 		#3

you don't understand me.
it's not that I can't install the driver.
I want to know how can I contact ubuntu developers OR kernel developers because I want that the tevii customers wont need to install the drivers - the linux kernel/ubuntu automatically detect it. tevii are willing to do this but thy do not know how.

thanks.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

You could make a deb and submit it as a contribution
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ContributeToUbuntu

Remember, what you are pushing is EXTREMELY specialized to only a few hardware items.

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SOME1 (dotanpo) said : 		#5

thanks.
I found how to do what I was looking for following the instructions in this site
http://kernelnewbies.org/UpstreamMerge

thanks again for helping. :)