On Mon, Dec 1, 2025 at 5:21 PM William Park via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:

Actually, this is central point. The NEW hardware most likely defaults to 'n'. Evan has to check that it is 'y' or 'm'.
I use "make olddefconfig" just to avoid all those questions about NEW parameters.

I want to avoid all that too. So just working with the preconfigured .deb files is good enough for me.

After things are installed (to /boot and /lib/modules), Evan has to add to grub menu.

That's what grub-mkconfig is for 🙂. Easy peasy.

- Evan