Iis there a fedora driver for an "MSI NF980-G65 motherboard"?

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I have a friend who is trying to get drivers for an "MSI NF980-G65 motherboard model number MS-7612" he came to me asking for help (since I have been using linux a little bit longer than him, he thinks I am a linux expert (I'm not)). and after what feels like hours of googling, I am starting to wonder if that driver even exists. I have tried the default suse repos (since suse seems more open to proprietary drivers), the msi website, and fedora's website; none of which had any fedora/suse/redhat/linux in general drivers for that motherboard.

[atreyu]

What you really need to find out what chipsets, which drive the hardware, are on the motherboard (e.g., video, nic, northbridge/southbridge, audio, etc.).

According to the PDF of the manual here, it has the following:

NVIDIA® nForce 980A SLI chipset (video/disks)
Realtek® RTL8211CL (nic)
Realtek® ALC889 (audio)

Basically, you should be good to go with any recent Linux distro. Fedora is particularly good w/bleeding-edge hardware.

Has you friend actually tried a distro, and is not having luck?

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he said:

No, its working fine, I just thought before that I needed to install drivers like I needed to for the video card

. I can't believe I spent all that time looking for drivers, and he had them the whole time (oh well).