Today we closed a long standing feature request (#35). It was originally talked about in August, 2009 as a way to effectively distribute upgrades without having to install new kernel drivers each time Ubuntu does an ABI bump (kernel revision). Prior to having DKMS you would have to install the Ubuntu updates, find out what kernel version was installed during the upgrade (if any) and install our module. Occasionally Ubuntu would do an ABI bump over the weekend and we wouldn’t have a module built until Monday, leaving customers with a system that wasn’t working properly.

By having a DKMS supported driver it means that our software is really a ‘One click upgrade’. This also allows us to support different Ubuntu releases (Hardy, Karmic, Lucid) later down the road.
Thanks to Ben Collins for his hard work on the driver over the past month and getting the DKMS package finished.

Instructions for installing the DKMS package can be found here: http://forums.bluech…ry-dkms-module/

Related posts:

1. Ben Collins joins Bluecherry