Adding Reply Archived Topic: It will not be bumped to the top of the forum. Topic hardware drivers Membername   Not a member? Sign Up Free (takes 20 seconds) Password   Forgotten your password? Post Font: Verdana Arial Black Georgia Comic Sans Impact   Size: Tiny Normal Big Huge   Color: Default Dark Red Red Orange Brown Green Olive Cyan Blue Dark Blue Indigo Black [ Check Spelling ] [ Post Preview ] [ LiveTags ] FAQ Keyword Search: Post Options Favorites Manager Notify me of new replies to this topic by email Notify me of new replies to this topic by private message Original Post j3100 Posted at 7:44 am on May 25, 2004 Where do people get drivers for linux, it seemes that all the drivers are for windows. Also, is the same driver good for multiple distrobutions?

Replies Quuvvaazzo Posted at 11:41 pm on Nov. 18, 2006 LoL so true.       mephisto mortis Posted at 4:01 pm on July 18, 2004 drivers are in the kernel too, perhaps you should have a look. heres whatcha do: (you must be in root!) cd /usr/src/linux make menuconfig then u will see lots of drivers and options, enable/disable what you need to thenn: (for 2.4 kernel ) make dep && make bzImage modules modules_install (for 2.6 kernel) make && make modules_install then when u r copy the bzImage and System.map over the old ones vitamin Posted at 12:48 pm on May 27, 2004 No worrys anytime! j3100 Posted at 8:46 am on May 27, 2004 ok, thanks vitamin Posted at 9:00 am on May 25, 2004 Usally on alot of the companys websites they have linux drivers. And unless i states I would always use drivers that are known to work with that ever distro you got! All 5 previous replies displayed.