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Thursday, May 15, 2008

Device drivers for hardware devices

Device drivers is one of the imortant and necessary thing required for Hardware devices . Every operating system, including the Linux kernel, comes with a lot of them.
When you configure a kernel, the menu from which you must choose which devices you have in your computer is actually a list of device drivers available to you. You can configure your kernel by using the following:
cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig
All existing hardware can not be supported by Linux. Like other operating systems it is still not that popular
If you have a device that is not in the list, then you will need to search for it on the Web. Some drivers may exist for Linux and not be in the default kernel. But if a device is not currently supported by any driver for Linux, then you will have to wait for someone to make one, or make one yourself.

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