Help for Setting up Drivers

[skcnepal]

Hi All,

I am new to Linux and I have just purchased a new Laptop. I have installed RedHat on it and I have found that there are some hardware are not functional.

Here is the output of lspci command

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 0044 (rev 12)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 0046 (rev 12)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak HECI Controller (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak High Definition Audio (rev 06)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 06)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 06)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev 06)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a6)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak LPC Interface Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak SMBus Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak Thermal Subsystem (rev 06)
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Unknown device 4727 (rev 01)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. Unknown device 2060 (rev c1)
ff:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2c62 (rev 02)
ff:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2d01 (rev 02)
ff:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2d10 (rev 02)
ff:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2d11 (rev 02)
ff:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2d12 (rev 02)
ff:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2d13 (rev 02)


Please help me for installing not working hardware

[Roxoff]

You'll have to be a little more specific. What, exactly, isn't working here? And what have you done so far to try and make them work?

[skcnepal]

Need help on installing VGA driver as well as wireless.

[Roxoff]

Which version of RedHat have you installed?

As you have an Intel chipset for your video, and as I cannot see a wireless driver listed specifically (so I'm assuming it's one of the unrecognised items at the bottom of the list) you should have no problems with this stuff being detected by most modern distributions.

Are you using a recently released distro? What happens if you boot up using a live CD of Fedora or Ubuntu?

[reed9]

03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Unknown device 4727 (rev 01)

The wireless is a broadcom of some sort.

The RHEL 5 series and earlier use a very old kernel, so hardware support is sometimes not equal to desktop oriented distros. That said, I'm guessing you're using something much older that RHEL 5.5, given that almost none of your hardware is being recognized.

Presumably, as well, you are not paying for a RHEL license. If you want a RHEL based system, use one of the free (as in beer) clones, like Scientific Linux or CentOS.

Depending on the chipset of the broadcom card, you need either the open source b43 driver or Broadcom's wl driver.

The b43 driver requires extra firmware. Instructions can be had here.

And here is how to get the wl driver working in a current version of RHEL, CentOS, or Scientific Linux.