How do you install and uninstall drivers? And where can you get hardware drivers for Xubuntu/Ubuntu?
How do you install and uninstall drivers? And where can you get hardware drivers for Xubuntu/Ubuntu?
Most hardware drivers are supplied with Ubuntu, it's rare you'd need to download any.
Only ones I can think of (that it is sometimes necessary to obtain directly from manufacturer) are Nvidia, ATI, HP and wireless card. Normally the ones supplied (from repos) work perfectly well but as I say, occassionally it is required to obtain cosed-source versions from manufacturer / 3rd parties. Most recent in my case was an AMD Radeon fix to use priro version to get catalyst to work on 12.10.
What is it you need?
Ubuntu's software sources will let you know if there's an updated (if you have all repos checked) driver available.
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Those ones are available via the Additional Drivers application. I think that can be found by clicking on the cog wheel icon to the right of the search box in the dash on a Unity desktop. Can't check that right now, as I am on 10.04. On pre-unity desktops, it is in system> administration
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Drivers for peripherals, perhaps?
Jane, stop this crazy thing!
Hi.
Prior to start, let me say I did this with modules installed in the system, but I suppose it's analogous for external ones.
$sudo modprobe module_name
you can check it out with
$lsmod | grep module_name
maybe this web throws light into the matter.
http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/11/...mand-examples/
also, the nvidia/ati drivers usually come with detailed info to install (present in the description or the page).
Good luck.
You won't be able to install drivers on a USB stick if it's a Live session, only if you've actually done a full install to the USB stick. If that's the case open up the tool called Software Sources and click on the tab for hardware drivers, you may find that there's a driver for your wifi available there.
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