michaelmrose, 7 months ago

If it is not in the kernel and the manufacturer doesn’t provide one, don’t expect fun times.

This could be shorted to if your device has no driver it wont work which is obviously true.

If you have very recent hardware and you find it doesn’t work out of the box on stable options the easiest thing to do is install a more recent kernel. Even current Ubuntu non-LTS is 2-4 releases behind.

learnubuntu.com/install-mainline-kernel/ alternatively you can use a third party kernel repo which has a recent build with extras xanmod.org I’m using the second option.

It’s even easier in arch/void where the latest kernel is already available.

Respectfully if DKMS wasn’t automatically kicking in then you configured it incorrectly. It’s a lot easier to just rely on a package that sets this up for you properly. If for some reason this can’t be done the logical thing to do is script the process so that all operations are completed in the appropriate order that way you needn’t remember to do one then the other.