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Old 12-21-2006, 05:20 AM   #1
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Checking Drivers in Linux


Hi Everyone

Hi Everyone i am using Fedora 3

How can i install the drivers here

And which is the place i can check for

Driver is installed or not

Like Device manager,what is the command to

show the installed and failed drivers here

Helping this issue will be greatly appricatesd

Thanks & Regards
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Old 12-21-2006, 05:34 AM   #2
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Driver Installation:
Software installation for FC3 is handles through YUM. Always use this first.
See: www.fedorafaq.org/fc3/

It is also possible to locate drivers as rpm files using google. Understand there is no one resource for all drivers - just like in windows. Lots of people make drivers for linux. Driver rpm files are installed, unsurprisingly, via the rpm utility. Lastly, you can always choose to download source code and compile it yourself.

Listing Installled Drivers:
You should be aware that drivers, in linux, are called modules. The utility which handles them is called "modprobe". You can get a simple list of all the modules that have been loaded with "lsmod" and you can find out what modules have been compiled by downloading the kernel source tree and running "make gconfig" as if you were about to recompile the kernel. This will give you a browsable tree of kernel modules with handy help files.

If you have a specific issue with drivers (or anything else), please ask a specific question.

Note: you will likely be happier with a more recent fedora release (or any linux release for that matter). FC3 had many issues which have now been rsolved.
 
Old 12-21-2006, 05:35 AM   #3
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can you be more specific about what you need? what kind of device are you talking about?
 
Old 12-21-2006, 05:42 AM   #4
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Thanks for your reply

I am just asking about all the drivers

But especially about the Wirelesss card driver in the laptop

Thanks
 
Old 12-21-2006, 05:50 AM   #5
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well wireless drivers are generally a very different kettle of fish to other's, as their hardware API's are not as freely available as other hardware, as such you're often restricted to installing unlicensed, legally questionable drivers, or wrapping windows drivers with tools like ndiswrapper.

many other drivers are already part of the standard linux kernel, and are just loaded automatically without any user interaction whatsoever, e.g. southbridge drivers. so you can't know about it in general, as it doesn't work liwk that.
 
Old 12-21-2006, 07:15 PM   #6
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Google is your freind - please read the advise in my sig.
http://www.linux-drivers.org/
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/
 
  


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