A device driver or software driver is a computer program allowing higher-level computer programs to interact with a hardware device.
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(Solved) Linux cdc_acm device - unexpected characters sent to USB device
I'm having trouble with unexpected characters being sent on a USB port with the cdc_acm driver. What makes this all the more perplexing is that the code runs fine on Ubuntu 12.04 (3.2 kernel) but ...
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How to list all hardware supported by kernel
I want to see all hardware supported by the kernel in use. For example, if I have the 3.8.x.x version of the Linux kernel, how will I know what hardware is supported there. Tools like lspci, lshw, ...
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Despite all attempts fan is still running very loudly and fast
I am running DELL Vostro 3750, operating system Linux Mint and despite all my attempts the fan is still running very fast and loud. So far I have tried first edit Grub according to this article. Than ...
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How to install a printer that is connected via an USB-to-Parallel-Port adapter?
I'm running Sabayon Linux (x86_64).
$ uname -a
Linux qdoe 3.7.0-sabayon #1 SMP Thu Dec 20 07:12:55 UTC 2012 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3930K CPU @ 3.20GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
I have a HP ...
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Compile Linux Kernel w/ Dynamically (Un)loadable usbserial Module
I've attempted to install drivers for an FPGA device, but require that I remove the usbserial module. This happens to be impossible because usbserial is a built-in module. It was suggested that I ...
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Intel 82845G Integrated Graphics hanging in Fedora 18 i686 desktop
The first sign of this was that on startup gnome started up in safe mode and I can't access system settings from the gui menu.
$ uname -a
Linux mymachine 3.7.2-204.fc18.i686.PAE #1 SMP Wed Jan 16 ...
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Removing builtin modules in Linux
I'm currently attempting to remove the usbserial module in order to install a new driver module. When I attempt to remove the module I get the following issue:
[root@localhost xr21v141x-lnx-3.0-pak]# ...
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USB Driver Compilation Error
I'm currently trying to compile a Linux USB UART driver, which is provided here:
http://www.exar.com/connectivity/uart-and-bridging-solutions/usb-uarts/xr21v1410
The driver consists of 2 header files ...
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Can Debian linux find automaticaly drivers for USB ethernet NIC?
Can Debian linux find automaticaly drivers for USB ethernet NIC?
Which would you recommend me? My problem is, on my datastore, there is only 100mbps network, no free PCI slots, so last chance how to ...
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How do I get a bulletproof wifi?
I have used several Linux distributions (Arch, Debian, Ubuntu) over the years and I would consider myself not an expert but certainly an experienced user. It happened now for the 3rd time that I was ...
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Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device on Fedora 18: No drivers?
I've just installed Fedora 18 on an old laptop, and it seems I can't get drivers for the graphics card.
"Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device" is what lspci is reporting, but I'm ...
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Xorg not working on Arch Linux
I installed Arch i686 on a VirtualBox VM (I have an nvidia GT610). I ran the following commmand as root:
pacman -S nvidia
After installation and rebooting, I ran
pacman -S xorg-server xorg-xinit ...
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Install Broadcom wifi adapter driver in BackTrack 5 R1
How can I install the Broadcom BCM43142 driver in BackTrack 5 R1? Please can anyone guide me with step by step instructions as I am new at Linux.
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linux driver installation error - “/lib/modules/2.6.18-194.el5/build: No such file or directory. Stop.”
I got an error
/lib/modules/2.6.18-194.el5/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
while installing moxa driver, following is the shell screen shot.
[root@lnx149-252 driver]# pwd
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Find out which modules are asociated with a usb device?
Please recommend way to figure out which driver is being used for a USB device.
Sort of a usb equivalent of lcpci -k.
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Can (CUPS) ppd files for Mac OS X be used for linux?
I am looking at buying a printer (actually an all-in-one I prefer for the features it provides, but I want to focus on the printer part here) which does not provide linux drivers, but does provide Mac ...
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Current state of AMD graphics driver for Linux?
I've used Linux distros quite a lot and remember horrible AMD support for graphic cards. I'm building a new rig, atm, and would like to know if the situation improved?
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Raspberry PI Connect2 Pi not installing required drivers
I recently got a RPi with different modules. One of them was a Connect2 Pi wireless dongle from LPRS, used to send 100 Mb data packages over the internet. It's basically an internet dongle. However, ...
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Computer recognizes wireless network but asks for password repeatedly
I have installed Mint 14 Xfce on a Dell XPS 400. I am using a Belkin F5D8010 wireless card. I got the .inf file from the Belkin website and installed it using the graphical ndiswrapper tool. The ...
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Unclaimed device in lshw
I have added in my computer a PCI Express controler card with 2 USB3 ports and 2 sata3 ports. (http://www.ldlc.be/fiche/PB00121886.html).
The USB ports are working correctly but the HDD plugged in ...
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How to install much newer mpt2sas driver version in debian squeeze?
Linux debian squeeze 6.0.6 (2.6.32-5-amd64) is supplied with quite an old 02.100.03.00 version of the mpt2sas driver.
I do wish to install a much newer mpt2sas driver version. In know there are ...
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full-featured WLAN USB adaptor
I am searching for a WLAN USB adaptor that can be used as an Access Point as well as a mere client and in an AdHoc setup. It should support IEEE 802.11n and transmit rather fast (300Mbps).
As I ...
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Ricoh Aficio SP 100su E
After installing a Ricoh Aficio SP 100su E printer (it does scanning as well),
I've tried a tenth of the GDI and PCL (5e/6) generic and Ricoh drivers without any success.
I've learned from Ricoh that ...
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Is there a Linux for an MSM7227 tablet with USB keyboard and touchscreen stylus drivers?
I have a ZTE V9C 7" tablet with 800MHz MSM7227 processor, Snapdragon family (ARM architecture?), Android 2.3, and I want to have a (very lightweight) Linux running on it (I know Android uses a Linux ...
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Is there any difference between use driver from ati.amd.com or download fglrx package from repositories?
I'm wondering if both are the same or one is better than the other.
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Possible missing firmware
I've just installed Backtrack 5 r3 (Gnome, 64bits) on my new machine but I am kind of facing a problem.
I tried installing ATI driver, gparted, and libc for 32-bit support and I always seem to be ...
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How do I go about making a wrapper for a driver to be used on FreeBSD?
The situation:
I found myself in need of an additional NIC for my pfSense router/firewall. I had a few choices...
shell out over $100 for a dual port gigabit card
buy a new motherboard that has ...
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BackTrack USB Wireless adapter drivers issue
I purchased USB Wireless adapter which runs smoothly on Windows and Ubuntu, but in BackTrack it showing me Bad password issue. From my reading I guess it's driver issue which BackTrack Kernel don't ...
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Laptop falls-back to Vesa video-driver
I own Dell Inspiron 15R SE (7520) and I have installed Arch Linux on it. It seems that I have two video-cards so I have installed both drivers + Vesa driver (pardon me if that's wrong).
dagrevis@haze ...
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How to feed linux new install drivers?
I'm trying to install a Linux distribution on my new setup, but after the first tries I failed without knowing why.
My configuration:
Desktop PC HP
Processor: Intel Core i3 2120 @3.30GHz
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/opt/nvidia-smi from nvidia-drivers pack outputs “failed to load nvidia kernel module”
Actually I have nouveau string in make.conf.
"Nvidia-smi has failed because it couldn't communicate with NVIDIA driver. Make sure that latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running."
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Checking video card load via command line
Is there a command like cpustat or iostat or memstat, but for the video card? Or some indication in /proc or /sys?
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Fedora 15 Crash after xorg.conf file update
I updated my xorg.conf file looking to set up a dual screen system. Unfortunately, I can't provide you this file because when I went to reboot my system crashed.
The last line I get when I try to ...
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Unable to get graphics to work on a Fedora 17 on a Intel Atom board
I have a Intel N2800 motherboard with the PoverVR Cedar Trail GPU. It seemed that it was not possible to make it work other than using some meego kernel patch that works on a specific kernel version. ...
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Drivers for CAN controller on Colibri Eval Board (or how to write platform device driver) [closed]
Problem: I need to bring up the SJA 1000 CAN controller on the Colibri Evaluation Carrier Board v2.1 (with a Colibri T20 (NVidia Tegra) module inserted into it, which has an ARM CPU).
Research: On ...
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Driver for Intel 2200BG wireless network card
I'm trying to make work my wireless network card Intel 2200BG in my laptop Acer Travelmate 4002WLMI.
I tried so far:
$ sudo lshw -C network
*-network:1
description: Wireless interface
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“Merging” two input device drivers/nodes to one device node
Okay, I have two joysticks attached to my linux box and they show up as /dev/js0 and /dev/js1. My problem is, I have a third party application, (that I cannot change), that uses a joystick, and it can ...
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How can I fix my X11 draw garbled icons?
I'm running linux mint 12:
$ cat /etc/issue
Linux Mint 12 Lisa \n \l
This started happening recently:
And I'm not sure why. It's not just limited to the above icons and text.
$ lspci | ...
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Installing USR 5422 on Ubuntu 12.04
I am a newbie to Linux. I was trying to set up the USR5422 USB adapter. It worked fine for the first time, but since then it freezes the computer most of the time. What commands can I fire to see ...
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Reducing ubuntu boot time using dmesg
The boot time is 141 seconds. Here's the most interesting parts of dmesg command:
[ 2.870498] usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd
[ 80.669210] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: ...
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Restart usb mouse driver?
Sometimes, after some event that I can't determine, my usb mouse gets stuttery - like the refresh rate drops down to about 5-10Hz. It still works fine other than that, but it's incredibly annoying, ...
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Installing wireless driver (realtek 8188CE) on Debian wheezy
I had a hard time installing the wireless driver for my debian. My debian was Sqeeze but soon after I realized Wheezy was the one to support my wireless adapter, realtek 8188CE,I upgraded to wheezy. ...
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Cannot get Realtek r8168 ethernet card up
I've working on Arch Linux and in 99% of time I connect to internet by WLAN but sometimes I need to use ethernet connection, so today I see something strange. My eth0 device is down, and I can't get ...
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Hopelessly stuck on making Nvidia Driver work on Debian
Before I posted question here, I'd been hacking around for the solution for my problem, but none of them worked. Here is my situation. I had a Win7 OS before I put a Debian Squeeze on it, now I got a ...
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Does Linux have support for network interfaces over an AT-Command serial modem?
I've got a Telit GM862-GPS module, which is a GPRS modem with a serial interface and uses the standard Hayes AT command set (with some extensions). What I'd like to do is to be able to connect this up ...
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Modifying TG3 Broadcom driver
I was wondering whether it's possible to modify the said driver in order to prevent adapter from using embedded SRAM, and use system RAM instead. And if so, how to do it.
I have a laptop with ...
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How to update driver for SATA to CF adapter
I have a small PC booting CentOS 5.8 with kernel 2.6.18-164 from a CF card on a CF to SATA adapter. Boot time on this machine is cca 2 minutes, but with an updated kernel to 3.x it drops down to 80 ...
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How to know the event by looking at /dev/input/by-id
I want to access the keyboard device driver. I usually accesses it by looking at
/dev/input/by-name but the event provided by it gets changed every time I log in.
After searchin on the Net, I found ...
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Arch modules not loading on start?
I keep getting errors on startup in Arch relating to my rc.conf:
failed to load module "wl"
failed to load module "lib80211"
etc. It lists all the modules in my /etc/rc.conf
This is my full ...
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What is the difference between kernel drivers and kernel modules?
When I do a lspci -k on my Kubuntu with a 3.2.0-29-generic kernel I can see something like this:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G86 [Quadro NVS 290] (rev a1)
Subsystem: ...
