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Are Drivers used by the operating system?

Yes


What is the operating system for wireless devices?

Drivers are written for many operating systems.


Can you use and old operating system CD for a new computer?

If you can find drivers for that operating system for your hardware, then yes.


Why would your PC PS2 mouse work but the serial mouse does not work?

You will probably need specific drivers for a serial mouse. Go to the manufacturer's site and look for the drivers revelant to your operating system.


What are PC drivers?

drivers are similar to patches. you have probably heard of SP2 for windows. They are simply upgrades needed for compatibility, and in some cases are use to slighty improve the product. Overall they are a must. You can find the most up to date drivers online, as opposed to the disk sent with your product Drivers are small programs that allow devices to run on your operating system, They are not PATCHES.


Are hardware drivers universal?

No. They are written for a specific device or for a set of devices containing a specific chipset. They are also usually written for a specific operating system, unless they have an accompanying wrapper that adapts a generic block of code to a specific kernel.


What is an advantage of using signed drivers?

They are verified to be compatible with the operating system.


What part of software allow the operating system to communicate with peripheral devices?

The device drivers allow the operating system to communicate with peripheral devices.


Functions of kernel?

The kernel is one of the primary nodes of an operating system for a computer. It contains operating system core functions and the device drivers.


What should you do if eth0 is not present in Red Hat Linux?

If the hardware is present, but operating system can not use it, then mostly the problem is a lack of drivers for that specific hardware. Upgrading kernel or downloading and compiling drivers, if released, would help that.


Your laptop touchpad is not functioning?

Try reloading your system drivers (original Operating System disk).


Difference between operating system software utilities and drivers?

OS is a software that enable user to command the hardware software utilities are programs to help/improve a specific job of the OS. drivers are program that tells the OS how to let user command the specific device the driver is for.