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01-28-2010, 07:47 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2009
Location: Laguna Niguel
Posts: 10
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Dell Optiplex 755 drivers
Where can I find the device drivers so I can install RHLE v5.x on a Dell Optiplex 755?
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01-28-2010, 09:26 PM
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Moderator
Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Kent, England
Distribution: Debian Testing
Posts: 19,192
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Most drivers are likely to be pre-installed. Have you tried installing RHEL yet? That is your best way - install it and then see which drivers you actually need. It is likely that you will need graphics drivers from either the Nvidia or Ati website but you won't know until you have installed RHEL.
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01-28-2010, 09:31 PM
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Member
Registered: Oct 2004
Location: Atlanta
Distribution: CentOS, RHEL, HP-UX, OS X
Posts: 567
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I would think Video drivers, and maybe wireless drivers would be the only thing you would need. Unless you have something crazy like a PCI SCSI card installed everything else should be handled by default from RHEL kernel modules.
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01-29-2010, 11:19 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2009
Location: Laguna Niguel
Posts: 10
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When I first begin the installation on a 1 partition system (Windows XP installed) with plenty of hard disk free space (over 70 GB not on NTFS partition), I get a message "Unable to locate device driver" or something to that effect suggesting that I need a hard disk drive controller driver. I am able to access a list of SCSI and SATA drivers, but none of them work.
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01-30-2010, 05:16 AM
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LQ 5k Club
Registered: Jan 2008
Location: Copenhagen DK
Distribution: PCLinuxOS2023 Fedora38 + 50+ other Linux OS, for test only.
Posts: 17,519
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Did you use the latest version ?
The kernel in version EL 5.4 probably has some
new drivers for SATA controllers included.
You can run a live cd to check, what you have.
The command is : lspci -vnn | grep -iA 1 SATA
Example, Dell Dimension 8300 ..
00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801EB (ICH5)
SATA Controller [8086:24d1] (rev 02) (prog-if 8f
[Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0157]
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