Driver for DELL Latitue D630

[0312385]

hi every body!!!
I install Fedora core 8. but I have not Driver for devices such as : VGA(NVIDIA Quadro NVS 135M), LAN(Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit) DELL wireless 1490.... i need driver for my OS.
thks EveryBody!!
Good Luck to You.

[objuan]

Hello

Go to dell.com and go to support click the drivers and software link and put your dell service tag number that is on the computer into the service tag box and submit it. when the next page comes up change the OS from windows to red hat. then there should be a hole list of drivers and software available for your computer.

[waterhead]

That's a neat trick, objuan! Unfortunately it doesn't work with all Dell PC's, it didn't work for me, anyway.

The OP may need to do it the old fashion way. First identify the components, and then find the drivers. We'll start with the graphics driver.

Fedora (and Linux in general) has an open source driver that should work for the QUADRO cards. It is simply called nv. If you can, go in the menu and run the Display program, or start it from a terminal:

/usr/bin/system-config-display

Under the Hardware tab, select Video Card-->Configure. Scroll down to the nv driver. select it and close the program. You now need to reload the graphics driver. There are several ways to do this, but for a newbie the easiest way is to just reboot.

If this doesn't work, or if you don't have the desktop loading, you will need to manually edit the graphics driver configuration file.

To get a terminal screen, press these keys together: Ctrl+Alt+F1. Login as root, then you will use the vi text editor to edit the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf

The X in X11 is a capitol letter. Use the down arrow key to scroll down until you find where the driver is listed. It may look something like this:

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "vga"
EndSection

It may not list "vga" as the driver, I just used that as an example. To change this to "nv", with the quotes, navigate to the driver listed, and put the cursor under the driver name ("vga"). Now hit the x key to delete a letter, do this for the entire driver listed. To enter the new driver, hit the i key (i = insert). Type in "nv", then hit the Escape key to exit the insert mode. Now save and exit by using Shift+ ZZ (hit Z twice while holding down the shift key).

Once you have this up and running, I highly recommend installing the nVidia Linux drver from the nVidia web site, but that is for another time.

EDIT IMPORTANT!: You really should make a backup copy of the xorg.conf file first, before changing anything. To do this enter this command, as root:

cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf  /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak

[waterhead]

Now to tackle the network cards.

In Linux, the drivers are written for the specific chips on the hardware, so the manufacturer's name is not always a reliable way to identify the correct driver for a piece of hardware. To find the specifics about any internal hardware, use this command (and post the output here, please):

/sbin/lspci -nn

This will give the information needed to determine the correct drivers that you should be using.

Also, to see a list of the driver modules that the system is currently loading, enter this command, and post the output here too:

lsmod

It may be possible that you just need to configure the network cards, to get them to work. Run the Network program from the menu, and configure the cards to connect to your router. The wireless is a little more complicated, so the output of the lspci command is still needed.

I gave you a lot to chew on here, so ask if you need some clarification or explaining.