Debian way of integrating out of tree drivers

From: Bob Alexander (bob_at_ngi.it)
Date: 03/31/05

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To: Debian Users <debian-user@lists.debian.org>

    This morning I tried using my atheros wifi (madwifi driver) and it did
    not work.

    I almost instantly realized that it was the first time I attemted using
    wifi after installing my 2.6.11.4 kernel.

    I therefore jumped into the madwifi directory and did a make/make
    install and corrected the "problem".

    Is there a way to "automatize" the adding of the madwifi drivers each
    time I compile a new kernel ?

    This is the way I compile kernels under Debian:

    export SUBV=$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M)
    #make menuconfig
    cat .config | gzip > /home/bob/t40.config.$SUBV.txt.gz
    fakeroot make-kpkg clean
    time fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=t40.$SUBV kernel_image modules_image

    kernels live under /usr/src each in their own directory (e.g.
    /usr/src/linux-2.6.11.4) and madwifi is /usr/src/madwifi

    Is there some obvious flaw with my approach ?

    TIA
    Bob 

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