this post was submitted on 02 Sep 2023
1218 points (100.0% liked)
Memes
1357 readers
15 users here now
Rules:
- Be civil and nice.
- Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
How do you even search for drivers in Linux? I thought this was a windows only thing
You need to if your device isn't officially supported. This is pretty common for USB wifi cards.
There's a DB of officially supported cards , and if your card isn't there then you have to look up for a driver.
Usually they're fairly easy to find with just googling.
If it's not in the Kernel, write a driver and upstream it. Be a man.
And this is a clear example of how to keep people away from Linux, nothing push more people out of a community than shamming.
Easier said than done. I did want to look into writing wifi drivers but imo these are the most difficult drivers to write code for.
On ubuntu-based distros, you can use driver manager.