Drivers question

Drivers question

by TONI H Dec 12, 2005 10:54PM PST

I'm getting ready to install Linux on a spare harddrive I have and wonder about drivers. Most sites I go to for the drivers for my system have them for windows (various versions of the OS), but I very rarely, if ever, see drivers for Linux. Will the windows drivers work?

TONI

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What I do.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Dec 12, 2005 11:14PM PST

I use a distro that has the drivers good to go. I'm currently running OpenSuse 10.0 and everything save the onboard video on that system worked. Since I don't care to deal with this I added a spare AGP video card and it's done without having to deal with drivers.

Cheers,

bob

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No Problem

by null. Dec 13, 2005 11:48AM PST

Hi Toni

I've used/installed most of the common ''big name distros''
I really like Suse 10. I haven't had a problem with drivers at all, with any of the latest distros, Most are included.
The only one I continue to have problems with is media files and streaming media codecs

Don Erickson

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Same here

by chuckieu Dec 14, 2005 4:40AM PST

I haven't tried Suse, but all Mandrake/Mandriva from 10.0thru current 2006 have natively supported and loaded
everything I have owned (AMD Athlon 1.2 and XP3000) with the exception of CanonIP3000 (you just use 7000 driver)
and Umax Astra 4450 (no Linux drivers were EVER written, but I have a 3400 to use on Linux that is automatically loaded). Even have an old IBM Thinkpad 380D (firmware update to allow "Boot from CDrom")with Damn Small Linux on it. The TP is only Pentium 150mb MMX, 80mb
(max) ram, 2.1G HDD. DSL recognizes my pcmcia (16bit)
Xircom 10/100 and Dell (Orinoco) wireless card. Hope this helps. chuck

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