Ubuntu Desktop 3.4: Proprietary GPU and Wi-Fi drivers
Finding out whether a machine needs a proprietary driver, where those drivers live in the archive, the Secure Boot state, and which kernel driver each network device uses. Nothing gets installed: the lab runs on a VM, which has no hardware that needs these drivers.
Before you start
The lab installs ubuntu-drivers-common (the ubuntu-drivers command)
if it's missing; reset removes it again. Write your answers to the files
in /root/lab-answers/, one item per line.
Tasks
- Find out whether this machine needs any proprietary driver. Write
yesornoto/root/lab-answers/1. - Find which component the NVIDIA 580 driver (
nvidia-driver-580) and the Broadcom STA Wi-Fi driver (bcmwl-kernel-source) are in, and what Secure Boot state this machine is in. Write the two components on lines 1 and 2 of/root/lab-answers/2, and on line 3enabled,disabledorno EFI. - For each network device, find the kernel driver in use. Write the
drivers to
/root/lab-answers/3, one line per network device.
Hints
ubuntu-drivers devicesprints nothing when every device works with open source drivers.apt-cache show PACKAGE | grep -m1 Section;mokutil --sb-state.lspci -kshows aKernel driver in use:line under each network controller.