Compat Wireless Portable -

make finishes. sudo make install . She reboots.

The README is terse, almost angry: “You need to have your kernel headers installed. If you don’t know what that means, stop.” compat wireless

“Long live compat-wireless.”

She leans back in her chair. The kernel still has the new, broken driver, but compat-wireless has overridden it, inserting its backported, duct-taped, beautiful mess of code into the running kernel. It’s a violation of every purity principle in systems engineering. And it works. make finishes