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Where can I get linux drivers?
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I install Red Hat 7.3 onto a spare 120GB drive last night, but unsuprisingly it has no support for several of my devices. Where's a good place to search? (Already googled without much luck)
Specifically I'm lacking drivers for:
Canon Canoscan N670U (flatbed scanner, usb)
Fuji Finepix 4900 (dig. camera, usb)
Epson Stylus Color 740 (usb)
Soundblaster SB128 CT5880
Radeon 64 DDR VIVO (agp)
It's not like it's old hardware, and I'm sooo tempted not to bother.
Specifically I'm lacking drivers for:
Canon Canoscan N670U (flatbed scanner, usb)
Fuji Finepix 4900 (dig. camera, usb)
Epson Stylus Color 740 (usb)
Soundblaster SB128 CT5880
Radeon 64 DDR VIVO (agp)
It's not like it's old hardware, and I'm sooo tempted not to bother.
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They rarely have drivers themselves, but can often point you in the right direction.
If that does not work search the newgroups, or post a message asking for help.
Some-one should come to your aid.
Should be a how-to somewhere on your instalation if not, on the Redhat site.
Just configure CUPS and you should be able to choose your driver.
Another Possibility is trying out Mandrake 9.0 on a 2Gig partition. Its just come out so it may just auto configure everything.
*Chuckle*
The older the hardware is the better in most cases. People have to write drivers unless manufacturers like HP & NVidia write drivers themselves. There always tends to be a delay with getting driver support with new hardware
I found the lhd site and they have nothing for me.
The sound card started working when I switched to KDE, so maybe it was ok before but had no sounds in use for events.
It seems to know all about my hardware, names each item on the USB hub, etc. It just has no drivers. I don't think Linux is ready for me yet. Not being able to use my Alcatel broadband modem kinda put me off a tad too.
As for the gfx card I'm not so sure since mine is some old shite (ATI Rage II) but works fine.
Not much help there but I'm new to Linux too (SuSE).
I'm trying out the new Mandrake today so I'll let you know how i get on. I've just upgraded my computer so i've got some fairly new kit in there - GeForce 4, Terratec 24/96 Fire soundcard. Hopefully it will pick it all up.:nervous:
Back to the adsl, if you couldn't find the how-to and drivers gimme a shout and I'll send some links your way.;)