[General] Good question

[Majed B.]

Hello Ebrahim,

The thing about hardware compatibility and Linux, is that not all
vendors and hardware makers provide drivers to Linux; the majority
provide for Windows only.

What I usually do is put the device name + the word "Linux" & "driver"
in Google and see if someone has written a driver for Linux and to see
if there's a way to make it work.

Another source to see what's supported: http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/
HCL = Hardware Compatibility List (Not Hydrochloric Acid, that's HCl,
lower L ;p)

You can also obtain device name and information using the following commands:
- lshw
- lspci
- lsusb
- lsscsi

Read the manual of each tool (man lshw, for example) to see what
options you can view using it.

I hope this helps :)

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Root <vip4ever98 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> How are you my brothers I have a question for the Linux and as you know, I
> still consider myself as biggner, and my problem is sometimes I can not
> define hardware device is there good distribution
> Or shell command or app in Linux to define hardware to let us all have
> benefit from this question and sorry for long speak  thanks for
> reading:) I,m Ebrahim
>
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