On 3/5/06, Rony Bill ronbillypop@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
The reason for writing this mail is not to find out what went wrong but to suggest to the kernel writers that just like the Windows OS, Linux too could have a streamlined and simple method of installing device drivers.
Believe me, this is a hard problem to solve properly. But there are people working on various solutions - so your point is well known and not being ignored. I suggest at the moment that you check out DKMS:
http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml
Jon.