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I'm aware there's already been a question and answer regarding Nvidia drivers, but my case is a little different. My wireless adapter's driver is proprietary, and for a minimal install, I need a command to install it. A general command for any other restricted driver that I may come across in the future would also be extremely helpful.

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You can run jockey-text, which is the command line equivalent of the "Additional Drivers" GUI tool.

jockey-text -h will show you the options available.

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  • Do I need to install anything to use it? And is it necessary to have jockey* installed for restricted drivers? – Oxwivi Feb 19 '11 at 19:49
  • It's installed by default, and unless you plan to manually hunt down individual drivers then you need it installed to fetch the right ones. – Jorge Castro Feb 19 '11 at 23:04
  • Thou art mistaken, for executing the above code asketh me to installeth jockey-common. – Oxwivi Feb 21 '11 at 18:01
  • what code? Did it ask you to install jockey-common after you ran jockey-text for the first time? – Jorge Castro Feb 21 '11 at 18:05
  • Anyway, it'd be great if I could simply locate and download only the necessary driver package for my model since jockey seems to be an one-time use application. – Oxwivi Feb 21 '11 at 18:10
  • It's exaclty as you say, after I ran the command (sorry not code) it asked to me install jockey-common. By the way, it's actually the second time, the first time was before I installed any GUI. – Oxwivi Feb 21 '11 at 18:11
  • ok, then what happened? Did it find the driver you needed? – Jorge Castro Feb 21 '11 at 18:22
  • Can't answer that right now. Like I commented on the question, I've got only one active system, so I can't try it out outright. What I've updated you on are just the results on a VM I'm running. – Oxwivi Feb 21 '11 at 18:29
  • I've confirmed in a live run of Ubuntu. – Oxwivi Feb 22 '11 at 15:03
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jockey-text -l

shows what drivers are available

jockey-text -e <type:name>

enables a driver. Only last -e seems to be used. eg.

jockey-text -e kmod:wl

It goes quiet for a long time during which it fetches and installs the driver. You can use

jockey-text -l

again to check that your driver is now enabled.

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