Have you had to download drivers for GNU/Linux and install them when some device didn't work? Except nVidia/ATi drivers I mean. Just like in Windows. Or the only driver you can download for GNU/Linux is a driver for videocard and all other are in always in the system?
View 4 RepliesI have a old mac G4 and I just recently installed ubuntu 10.10 on it. It doesn't recognize my wireless adapter at all so I get no wireless on the computer. I've never used any linux distribution in my life so I don't have any idea how to install drivers for it.
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhen I go to System/Administration/Hardware Drivers I have an error message:Downloading package indexes failed, please check your network status. Most drivers will not be available.After that I get the Hardware Drivers window empty..My network is working fine so I don't know whats the problem
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have a Xerox printer, Phaser 3160. On the cd that comes with the printer i got a file for linux called "P3160.tar.gz".
Having extracted this file I found the content as listed below:
These are the files in the linux dir,nothing in the other dirs
Below are dirs
As there is no ./configure file, what do i have to do to install the drivers for the printer
I am using Suse 11.3
I tried changing the source to a few different ones and I picked "Select Best Server". Still getting the same msg. I am on a wired connection and there is nothing wrong with my connection.Anyone know the solution if not how do I install nvida drivers?
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View 1 Replies View RelatedWe have the need to install an older Linux distribution (Suse 10) on a brand new laptop. The kernel that comes with Suse 10 doesn't have new enough drivers for the NIC and the drive controller. We've been able to find the source code for the NIC and build a working NIC kernel module however, we can not find the source code for the drive controller outside the kernel tree. Newer kernels see the drive fine; the controller is the Intel ATA_PIIX. Its included in the kernel, the hardware we have it just newer than the version in the old suse 10 kernel supports. I've crawled all over the intel site looking for the code outside the kernel source and have been unable to do so. Is it possible to lift the code from a newer kernel source tree? Is it available for download anywhere?
Edit: (from a comment below) SLED-10-SP2-x86 is the OS. The installation of these systems in an automated process, trying to change the process to include a VM (if we had the memory) or install a different base OS; while doable- can't be done in the time allowed. To get through process development, testing, UAT, staging and deployment takes much longer than the time we have. The old laptop had this same issue and the fix by my predecessor was building the NIC and drive modules by hand. We need to simply update those modules for this new laptop
I have a DWA-130C (external wireless) and am trying to install the drivers for us in Linux Mint, I'm assuming this is done with ndiswrapper, but I have no idea what I'm doing. I am a begginer to Linux though I know the basics of using the console, packages and such.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have two devices (a usb modem and a camera) permanently hard-wired into my system. When linux boots, it automatically inserts their drivers. However, I would like this to be under my control to insert as and when needed. Can anyone give any pointers as to how I might disable auto-insertion, whilst still allowing manual insertion via insmod or modprobe? I understand the usual method would be to use modules.conf, however in my modules.conf file, there is no entries at all.
View 1 Replies View RelatedSay Ive installed a fresh copy of ubuntu on a new machine. I have an existing install on one machine. Due to restrictions on internet usage and access, I am unable to download all the softwares and packages from the internet onto the newly setup machine. Say I want to take some packages already installed on my pre-existing machine and install them on the new machine.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have scoured the web the last few hours and I have come across a plethora of similar problems relating to Ubuntu and Nvidia drivers. However, I still havent found a sufficient cure for the problem.
The exact problem I face is that as soon as I install the Nvidia recommended drivers using the "Hardware Driver Manager", I restart the system but it never gets past the login splash screen. After I log in it simply goes to a black screen and sits like this indefinately.
Does anyone know of a particular fix for this problem? I am at the end of my tether and there is no way I can use Linux if it means either getting a different graphics driver or sitting on a 800*600 resolution. (Not to mention I dont have acclerated 3d support...so no DVD playing!)
I have a Nvidia GeForce4 MX graphics card and im a complete n00b to Linx so please go easy on the technical jargon.
I have installed vlc player on my system using wine. In the task bar, the volume control is working fine and songs also get played in the vlc player.But i am not getting any voice in my headphones.
Following i am giving the results of few commands, which can help you people in giving me the best decision
lspci
OUTPUT
lsmod | grep snd
output
I have finally had a enough of windows and i want to change my laptop to linux, firstly what is the best distro that people recommend, i am trying to decide between ubuntu, fedora, mandriva and ultimate.
Secondly how do i go about installing all the drivers on a acer aspire 5920G laptop, and where can i download these from?
If I were to download items from the Synaptic Packet Manager, download only not install, how would I then install them later? Where will the files be located?
View 2 Replies View RelatedUbuntu 10.04 and just installed it on this computer with Wubi. I had a previous version of Ubuntu on another computer and did some programming on it. My issue is that downloading a software package from the Ubuntu Software Center or the Synaptic Package manager rarely works. The download proceeds at 1000B/sec and when it gets to applying changes, it stalls out. Now, my Internet connection is solid and i can easily stream videos and download files at over 2 MB/sec.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm wanting to do a clean install but with a slow Internet connection it will take for ever to update and re-install my software from the Internet.Is there an easy way that I can use the packages that are saved in /var/cache/apt/archives with out hitting dependancy and version issues?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI mean, I have the latest version of ISO (Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat) downloaded on my computer and then i) made a startup USB disk using Ubuntu's built-in startup disk creator and ii) created a bootable CD drive with that downloaded ISO. Then whenever I tried installing it inside Windows*, I notice that the installer (Wubi) begins downloading the entire ISO from the Internet. I tried disconnecting the network but that returns an error and the installation stops. I remember my good days with installing Ubuntu Karmic Koala using Wubi on my computer. It never started downloading.
The problem appears to occur with Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10 and 11.04 (I don't care about Natty yet, though). I want to know why this happens. Since the entire ISO is here, why would it want to download the entire ISO from the Internet? It's impossible to let it download. Is there any possible solution to this problem? The reason I'm trying to install Ubuntu inside windows is that I don't want to mess with Grub. My brother installed Ubuntu on his hard drive in a separate partition and when he uninstalled it for some reason, he couldn't log in to Windows because grub was there and MBR was missing.
when I try to add the opera repository, I get something like, download failed check your internet connection
View 4 Replies View Relatedmy mate "polish dave" came round and hooked his laptop to my network 02wireless with WEP enc, using backtrack he had my password within 15mins.. now i want to copy him and see just how easy it is my 'acer aspire one' comes with a built in atheros ar5b95 wireless (useless) that i cant get backtrack to find.. i bought a tplink usb and now i cant get that to show up either.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI had a problem while installing linux 4.0, 5.0 & 5.2
My system configuration is as follows:
MSI 785 GM E65 MotherBoard
AMD Phenom IIx2 550 processor
RAM 2GB Kingston DDR3 1033GHz
HDD 1TB
While Installing linux 4.0 it shows a msg AHCI adapter drivers not available and system halts
While installing linux 5.0 it shows a msg
KERNEL PANNIC and system halts
While intalling linux 5.2 it halts
Very new to linux, just downloaded Ubuntu 10.04 and installed it, dual boot, no problems with initial installation.
Trying to install graphics card driver for:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G92 [GeForce 8800 GTS 512] (rev a2)
Using Administration -> Hardware Devices
I selected the recommended driver and clicked activate. Download started then failed with error message:
SystemError: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...ntu3_amd64.deb Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.30 80]
Screenshot attached.
Tried several times now and the download doesn't even seem to start any more.
My Internet connection is 3 mobile broadband, which may have something to do with it, bit it seems to be working well at the moment.
i just tried to install th ecatalyst 10.12 (ati-driver-installer-10-12-x86.x86_64.run) using sudo bash but i keep getting this error in the log:
[Message] Kernel Module : Trying to install a precompiled kernel module.
[Message] Kernel Module : Precompiled kernel module version mismatched.
[Message] Kernel Module : Found kernel module build environment, generating kernel module now.
[code]....
I have two monitors, a primary crt which I usually run at 100-160hz depending on the resolution, and a secondary lcd which I run at 144hz. I can't set either to anything above 60hz or any respectable resolution.
I'm running debian 8 with gnome. Apparently I can't use propietary drivers with gnome because it isn't supported and I have to use the open source ones. So I used this website as a guide to install drivers: [URL] ....
I tried:
1. Code: Select all# Debian 8 "Jessie"
deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
Which gave me nothing. First line didn't do anything at all, second one didn't work because 'deb' isn't a valid command.
2. Code: Select all# apt-get update
Worked as per usual.
3. Code: Select all# apt-get install firmware-linux-nonfree libgl1-mesa-dri xserver-xorg-video-ati
Only one installed, and that was xserver.The other ones failed (werent found or something?). Anyway as per instructions i rebooted and ofcourse nothing happened. I am pretty sure since step 1 was probably meant to add to the repository, step 3 wasnt able to complete.
But my concerns are...
1. How am I meant to do step 1 if it isn't a real command
2. Should I (or can I) change to something other than gnome, because I don't think its worth missing out on propietary drivers just to use gnome.
My card is a hd7970.
I just installed Fedora 14 on my laptop and I'm giving it a shot for the first time. I'm trying to install the drivers for the WGUSB-ANT, which I downloaded from this page:
[URL]
The readme says all I need to do is run a couple of scripts and it will untar the tarballs and everything for me, so I run the first script "makedrv" as root using "bash makedrv":
Code:
[root@localhost rtl8187_linux_26.1025.0328.2007]# bash makedrv
ieee80211/
ieee80211/license
ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt.c
ieee80211/ieee80211_tx.c
[code]....
So, it doesn't "make". the "build" shortcut it's trying to use is broken, and the file it want doesn't exist. was i supposed to have put these files in some specific location, before starting? I just ran everything from my Downloads folder... it must be some obvious mistake like that, I'm just too noobish to know exactly what to do.
When I had a wubi install(after I restarted, logged in, etc.) a little icon appeared in the top right-hand corner of the screen informing me of an nvidia driver update, which was required to run compiz desktop effects. Now I have ubuntu installed on an actual hard drive(wubi was deleted beforehand) and I get no such icon. So I'm wondering how to update my drivers. BTW I have a 9500GT
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have been using Linux for over a month and have gone through several books on it. My weak point in linux is system internals and the kernel, (which I am reading up on now). I am a computer scientist and so I am computer savvy, but have not had much experience until recently with linux. (I was a windows guy, but Ubuntu 10.10 has changed my opinion) I am trying to install drivers for the alfa networks wireless adapter AWUS036H. I followed their online manual and I didn't get very far. After looking at the error messages then I assume it is a kernel issue. Here is the error messages I get when I am trying to make the program:
steven@steven-Satellite-A100:~/Downloads/Software/Wireless_Adapters/AWUS051NH/Drivers/RT2870_LinuxSTA_V2.3.0.0$ sudo make
[sudo] password for steven:
make -C tools
[Code].....
The open source drivers don't work with HDTVs right so I needed to install ATI drivers
Im so upset because I FINALLY got Kernerl 3.0 working, but now recovery mode won't even work with the ATI drivers
I installed driver 11.8, my card is a 5770. Is there anything I can to do boot it up and somehow remove the bad drivers?
I'm working on a friend's computer, and I'm having many problems. During windows boot the usb keyboard and mouse will not function. The keyboard works in the bios and i put linux in, and the everything works fine.
I'm assuming the usb drivers may have been corrupted? So the only way i know how to solve the problem would be to use linux to install the drivers? Is this possible?
Originally the problem was the cd-dvd was not working so we replaced it.. now the usb's do not work.
I've been trying to install all the drivers for my laptop that I recently installed Ubuntu on and I've been having trouble installing the driver for my webcam.
I followed the instructions on Ubuntu Documentation > Community Documentation > Ov51x (sorry but I can't post links) but I'm having trouble with preparing the installation files with the "make" command.
This is the message I keep getting:
(See attached picture)
Also, as an aside, I often get the message when I'm trying to install a package that it is "Unable to locate pack ______".