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What is the relation between the Linux device drivers “domains”?
As I'm reading about the Linux device drivers and power management API I keep encountering terms like "system level", "subsystem", "platform", "class", and so on.
What is the relation between them? ...
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Data transfer between ATmega16 microcontroller and Linux?
Can any one tell me how can I know status of any pin of an ATmega16 microcontroller using Ubuntu?
When I connect ATmega16 to my system a file in /dev/ is created by name ttyUSB0. I am using an ...
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Determine whether kernel built-in driver supports a device
I'm trying to find a way to accurately determine whether all the hardware on some system has a valid driver installed either via a kernel module or built-in to the kernel.
I'm working with RHEL 5.5 ...
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Is there a list of NICs that work with linux?
I built a new computer and want to install Linux on it. I loaded a couple different flavors and they detect there is a NIC but it won't connect to the network. It looks like it tries and tries but ...
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How to install precompiled ath9k driver?
I have a Ubuntu and I have cross compiled an ath9k driver for an ARM architecture. The problem is a can't make the install work as I want to work.
README says the following:
Building for external ...
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USB-Serial Driver(Exar Xr21v1414) Run Error
I'm currently trying to run the bellow driver in linux-3.8.3 on Exar xr21v1414
http://www.exar.com/connectivity/uart-and-bridging-solutions/usb-uarts/xr21v1410,
but when i install the driver ...
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brcmsmac does not work
I am attempting to enable my wireless interface in Slax Linux, so far, I know the driver I need is brcmsmac, since I have a broadcom card; and this work in Slackware.
The driver is available and does ...
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Unable to install LAN driver in RedHat (*** /lib/modules/2.6.32-358.el6.i686/build: No such file or directory)?
I tried to install the Realtek LAN driver on my RHEL Server (running version 6.4).
In the folder extracted: autorun.sh log.txt Makefile README src
\>type command: ./autorun.sh
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Unable to install Atheros AR8161 Ethernet controller driver for centOS 6
I've installed CentOS 6.3. However, eth0 does not show up on ifconfig.
So I figured out that I need to install alx Ethernet driver from here.
Since my internet is not working, as ethernet drivers are ...
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Light linux for disk operations
I have old computer with Windows XP system and it started crashing randomly. I need light OS, which can be booted as Live CD/DVD in which I could copy all data from hdd to external hdd.
I have tried ...
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How to list all present optical drivers?
How can I list all the installed optical drivers with udev or any other core-based tool (perl is also very good) ?
P.S.: I know about the wodim --devices command, but it's an undesirable ...
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Video Gibberish (once every week or two)
Trying to track down an odd video problem. I was running Ubuntu (Precise Penguin) before and running Lucid before that. In both cases the video was running fine (over the last two years).
However ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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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 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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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: ...
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Can't install driver in Arch
I'm using Arch Linux, kernel 3.5.3 on a MacBook. I'm trying to get the keyboard backlight working. I found the driver in the AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25467, but I'm having trouble ...
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What driver is behind a certain device file?
Given a device file, say /dev/sdb, is it possible to determine what driver is behind it?
Specifically, I want to determine what driver my storage devices are using. fdisk -l lists 2 devices: /dev/sda ...
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Writing a driver to fool *nix systems about having a GPU
I'm into something about writing a "Mock GPU driver" for *nix based systems. What I mean is that, simply I want to write a driver (Behind X-server obviously) to answer X's API calls with some ...
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Xorg.conf, which modules should be loaded for better performance?
In general what is supposed to be in the Module section of the Xorg.conf file in order to get maximum performance from a graphic card?
At the moment my Module section is empty... also because I ...
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Trouble getting iwlwifi driver working
I just installed Debian and I am having issues getting my wireless working.
I installed Squeeze and also the nonfree firmware for iwlwifi.
I thought I did everything right but I am still not getting ...
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Linux thin station
I have this pc that I just installed and set it up as Linux thin station. I did all the formatting procedures and copying of image to the HD. When I boot it up, I get these, which I think are driver ...
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Can hardware be accessed directly from user space?
At work we have some embedded devices controlled by DOS software. I have been tasked with the responsibility of assessing the use of Linux as a replacement OS for DOS on a next generation of hardware. ...
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can't initialise/detect 16550A UART at unusual io port address
I've got a board based on the Vortex86DX CPU which is an x86 based microcontroller. It has five 16550A UARTS, four (COM1-COM4) of which are at the usual io port addresses (0x3f8, 0x2f8, 0x3e8, 0x2e8) ...
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wireless is disabled by hardware switch even when not
I have a spartan computer. It has a built-in wireless module that up until recently I've had no issues with. The current problem is this. Everytime I shutdown the computer and it boots back up, I am ...
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Bumblebee (Optimus) Service Won't Start w/ 3.4 Kernel on Fedora 16
I'm using an ASUS laptop (MUXless graphics) w/ a GT 630M (re-branded 540M) GPU and only Fedora 16 installed. I installed bumblebee and the NVIDIAdrivers using the instructions described here: ...
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Why need drivers for both x server and the linux kernel?
Can someone explain why two sets of drivers are needed, one in the Linux kernel and one in X?
I understand that the device drivers are in the kernel, but what is the role of those in the xserver?
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Where to find source code of Linux NTFS driver?
Brief description :
Linux driver gives us a chance to interface with an NTFS filesystem. Thanks to this driver, we can use built-in Linux commands on an NTFS filesystem.
Ex : ls, chown, chmod, cd, ...
