Most of the time, Linux should automatically recognize your H/W and set it up for you. If it doesn't then I suggest you should check the HCL and see if your H/W is listed there. Many a times the H/W manufacturer publish a separate driver to use with Linux in their site so you can check there out too. AFAIK, only the latest ones have issues with installing under Linux. If you have a specific card or H/W that you are having problem installing under Linux, you can always ask here in LQ at the H/W forum and I am sure you will get invaluable help fixing it.

Nice artical, thanks !!!
We need a bigger version of the last picture to set it up as background

gud one...

Yes, we can do even so, at least for wireless NICs
Argue that.

Excellent article! A few year ago I remember telling a friend of mine that I had manually loader far fewer drivers in Linux than I ever got by with in Windows but I certainly never realized that we supported more than anyone else out of the box. I can hardly wait to spring this on people at work

When someone tells me that there is a device that can't work under Linux, I tell them it can't work under Windows. In both cases, additional drivers are required. If there are enough people that want a Linux driver written for a piece of hardware, it will be written (I love open source).

This article inspired me to clean up one of my own drivers and see if I can send it upstream. I think I'm the first person to say that he uses a gamecube controller for a mouse, at least for Linux.