Linux Driver Support
 

Hey guys, what would you suggest,, most of the distros i have tried don't have that much driver support and i almost always get something not working. What linux distro has the most drivers support???? Thank you.......:Pengy:

it would be better if u could look for ur hardware in HCLs
there is a HCL at LQ here also

regards

If you're looking for the easy 'put the card in and it works' kinda support then Fedora Core or any other distro that uses the red hat hardware manager(whos name I can't remember) will do a pretty good job.
Alternatively, Gentoo has good hardware support and, if you do the Genkernel install then It autodetects pretty much everything.

it really matters on what type of hardware you are talking about. it is up to the manufacturer of the hardware to package drivers, i have found that mose have source drivers that you can compile into the kernel, you just have to ask them, they don't post them.

Driver support is determined by how many kernel modules come precompiled on the stock kernel of a particular distribution and how reliable is the hardware detection script it uses.

Every Linux distro can support the same hardware, provided you take the time to recompile the kernel to compile in the driver as a module or into the kernel. That way mo "distro" is better. Some distros make it easier for the end user by just coming with a stock kernel that has more modules compiled in already.

For unsupported hardware, either the manufacturers should come out and directly support Linux by providing their own drivers or they should release their driver info so that we can have open source drivers.

You might want to read this: http://hari.literaryforums.org/?p=13

Hope that helps.