Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
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no not really. and there is no need for one. upon booting, the linux kernel digs
through all the hardware it can find on the system and attempts to
automatically load the appropriate "drivers" (typically called
modules). If it can't find a module for a particula
Andrew Critchlow wrote:
> Can anyone please explain to me how drivers work in linux/debian?
> I am a newbie and have come over from microsoft. So my knowledge is of
> drivers and device manager and stuff from windows.
>
>
> Is there such a device manager in linux/debian?
No. In fact, forget
On 1/12/07, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 08:00:02PM -0500, celejar wrote:
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> Module-assistant is a Debian-specific tool for the building and
> installing of drivers that Debian packages as source code
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On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 08:00:02PM -0500, celejar wrote:
> On 1/11/07, jdaues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> [snip]
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> >I've only started using Debian in the last week, so be warned.
> >But so far the closest thing I see to a device manager is a pac
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 11:43:22PM +, Andrew Critchlow wrote:
> Can anyone please explain to me how drivers work in linux/debian?
> I am a newbie and have come over from microsoft. So my knowledge is of
> drivers and device manager and stuff from windows.
welcome to the dark side...
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On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 11:43:22PM +, Andrew Critchlow wrote:
> Can anyone please explain to me how drivers work in linux/debian? I
> am a newbie and have come over from microsoft. So my knowledge is of
> drivers and device manager and stuff from windows.
>
>
> Is there such a device manag
On 1/11/07, jdaues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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I've only started using Debian in the last week, so be warned.
But so far the closest thing I see to a device manager is a package
called module-assistant:
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/module-assistant
Module-assistant is a Deb
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On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 11:43:22PM +, Andrew Critchlow wrote:
> Can anyone please explain to me how drivers work in linux/debian?
> I am a newbie and have come over from microsoft. So my knowledge is of drivers
> and device manager and stuff from w
Andrew,
This works way, way, way differently in linux.
If you type "dmesg", after a clean boot, you'll get a report
of every driver that started up.
If you type "ifconfig -a", you can get a list of all configured
network cards.
If you type "lsmod", you'll get a li
Andrew Critchlow wrote:
Can anyone please explain to me how drivers work in linux/debian?
I am a newbie and have come over from microsoft. So my knowledge is of
drivers and device manager and stuff from windows.
Is there such a device manager in linux/debian?
And if I was to install a networ
Can anyone please explain to me how drivers work in linux/debian?
I am a newbie and have come over from microsoft. So my knowledge is of drivers
and device manager and stuff from windows.
Is there such a device manager in linux/debian?
And if I was to install a network card for example how cou
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