Trying to understand how to add hardware support to openfyde

Joe24 · May 6, 2026, 5:02am

Looking for guides or information on modifying the openfyde system to support my hardware. The camera, audio device, and fingerprint reader do not function with open fyde or fyde os. If I understand correctly: I cannot simply install hardware drivers after the os is installed because access to the system is locked off from the user. I would need to get the hardware drivers into the system before installing the operating system itself.

I’m reading up on how to build and install the openfyde os, but I could use more direction about my specific issue.

Hardware is a Dell latitude 7320 detachable. I found the specific hardware info from Linuxhardware.org

Sound device

Camera device

Fprint reader

The camera and sound work fine when I live boot Ubuntu or fedora. The fingerprint reader has an open source driver which works fine when installed.

So how can I get the software drivers for these hardware components added to the operating system and fully functional? There’s a long road ahead learning how to compile and package everything, but I expect it will be worth it to use this OS. Thank you

Mayday · May 7, 2026, 9:59am

You can refer to this cookbook. It’s quite complicated, and with Claude’s help, there’s a small chance of succeeding.

github.com

openFyde/cookbook/blob/main/recipes/2-adding_AX210_kernel_driver_support.md

# Adding AX210 kernel driver support for non-functioning wifi NIC


## Objectives

This recipe attempts to provide some pointers for resolving incompatibility issues on openFyde/FydeOS. 

It happens when you find certain components of your device do not function under openFyde/FydeOS, but you find the same component works under Chrome OS Flex, Ubuntu or some other mainstream conventional Linux distributions. 

In this recipe, we will tackle the issue causing Intel AX210 NIC to refuse to work under openFyde images produced in Apr 2022 (equivalent to FydeOS v14.1).



## Preparation

* Make sure that your AX210 NIC is working under another Linux distro.



## Procedures

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Joe24 · May 10, 2026, 6:28pm

Thanks, I’ve learned that I need an ipu6 driver for the camera and the sof firmware driver for the audio. I’ve double checked the drivers in Windows and verified all the hardware is perfectly fine and functional, and the hardware IDs. Now I need to learn how to patch the kernel with these drivers and see if I can get it to play nice with fyde.
Is it possible to patch the kernel for fyde os or only open fyde? Would I need to just request the hardware support for the next release of fyde os and hope it gets included? Or maybe request to the chromium os maintainers?