Re: Please teach me about how to find drivers and how to install drivers.

[Rob Owens <rowens@ptd.net>]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 07:59:25PM +0900, Kyuichiro Nakamura wrote:
> Sir,I am just started to install Debian Linux on my old DynaBook SS 60P 
> 1N8M (192Mb).
> I can not search for drivers.
> I also can not install the drivers.
> I am intending to use application 'ORCA' for my doctor.
> Which is developped for Debian Linux.
> I also bought a magazine titled 'Super simple introduction to Linux'.
> I tried to run UBUNTU live on the same PC.
> But it hung upped.
> The messages are as following.
> [5.629548] pata-acpi 0000:01:03.0: device not available because of BAR2
>    [0x00-0x07]collisions.
> [5.629746] ata-generic 0000:01:03.0: device not available because of BAR2
>    [0x00-0x07] collisions
> [5.646380] IOAPIC resources could be not be allocated.
>     Loading,please wait...
> BusyBox v1.10.2(ubuntu 1:1.10.2-2ubuntu7)
>     built-in shell(ash)
> Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
> Kyuichiro Nakamura,Yokohama Japan
> Tel:045-823-8925
> q-nakamura@kne.biglobe.ne.jp
>
A typical command for manually loading a driver would look like:

modprobe mydriver

So you may want to try searching google for the word "modprobe" and any
kind of hardware identifier you can come up with.  One such identifier
you might get from running the "lspci" command.  That'll give you info
on a lot of the hardware in your machine.

-Rob