rimzy schrieb am Montag, 31. März 2008: Hello rimzy! > Will fedora 8 install all the drivers for all the devices in my laptop > ? if not please tell me what all drivers / plugins should i download > extra ? I am asking you in advance so that i want to make sure that i > can install fedora without any problem That's difficult to say. If you insist on "without *any* problem" then for sure no. :) If you can accept some problems you probably be happy with Fedora. I don't know if you alredy have experience with Linux. If not - do yourself a favour and read what Linux really is. I found a nice page here http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm . There are drivers for many different hardware pieces for Linux. But not for all of them. Hardware manufacturers usually do not expressly support Linux - it's a matter of money and time, because developing drivers costs time and therefore money. Most people run Windows, not Linux, and they are the primary customers. Besides, there is no place for closed source drivers in the Linux kernel and almost all hardware makers do not like the idea of publishing their drivers' source code. That's the theory of Linux drivers. :) So the difference for you would be Windows: you visit your hardware maker's homepage, download the driver and install it. Linux: drivers are part of the kernel. Either within the kernel or a loadable module. Some can be installed from third party packages (e.g. Livna). If a driver you need is not part of the kernel or provided as a package you simply won't be able to use this particular hardware. This is of course an oversimplification. Some drivers are available as source code and must be compiled first. But that's a non-trivial business and nothing for the unexperienced beginner. > Graphics NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 There are NVIDIA packages in rpm.livna.org or freshrpms.net. I've seen them working on a GeForce Go 7600. > Networking/Wireless High speed 56K modem, Integrated 10/100 LAN, > broadcom WLAN with Bluetooth option LAN most probably will work, there are good chances WLAN will also do (with 3rd party packages, which Broadcom chipset is it exactly?), modem most probably won't work (see http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/). > Media Card Integrated 5-in-1 digital memory reader slot (xD, SD, MMC, > Memory Stick and Memory Stick PRO) Depends on the chipset. I've installed F8 on a HP Pavilion DV9000 where it "just worked" and on a Acer TM 8000 where a the card reader failed. -- bye, Adalbert QOTD: "What do you mean, you had the dog fixed? Just what made you think he was broken!" _______________________________________________ Fedora-laptop-list mailing list Fedora-laptop-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-laptop-list
