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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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ath9k driver sees only some Wi-fi networks

I have PCI Wi-Fi adapter: 06:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01) using ath9k driver. When I boot into Windows I can all all networks(including mine AP). ...
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Linux Driver CH341 USB Adapter Serial Port issue

On a x86_64 miniPC, a led strip can be controlled sending some bytes on a serial port. This control works on Windows but fails on Linux. On Windows, these lines in PowerShell switch the led strip off: ...
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adding drivers to WinPE v4(win8 version) for NVME PCIe SSD

We have this specific iso that when mounted on a device with m.2 NVME drive it cannot detect it, and as such we cannot use it for its perpuses. We do not have support for this as such we cant get the ...
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No network un ubuntu 22.04 after installing nVIDIA Quadro P400 card

I installed a P400 card to my server and internet connection dissapeared. If i take this card out and reboot everything works normally. Server recognizes network driver. I even updated kernel to 6.7 ...
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Are there alternative methods for installing Video4Linux (v4l) and Linux DVB (DVB) drivers for RHEL 9?

In RHEL 9, Video4Linux (v4l) and Linux DVB (DVB) devices television and video capture devices are no longer supported. https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9....
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Looking for Firmware for Oracle Dual 40 Gb Ethernet Adapter

I purchased an Oracle Dual 40 Gb Ethernet Adapter - documentation here. The card was sold to me as pure Intel. I realised it was OEM after I installed the card and checked it on Linux, but meanwhile ...
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Firmware ath10k_pci Causes Errors

A few months ago I started using Debian SID. Whenever I start my system I see with journalctl -p 3 -xb: pcieport 0000:00:1c.5: AER: Error of this Agent is reported first ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: ...
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servers unusable after boot...piix4_smbus SMBus Host Controller has stopped loading during boot, Debian Testing, various kernels

We have multiple old (14+ years) Tyan S3950 mobo servers running debian Unstable with various recent kernels like 6.1.0-3-amd64. Despite being on the bleeding edge with the unstable distro, this has ...
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How to include network drivers in the initramfs for PXE booting?

I am working on setting up PXE Booting on a HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen10 Server. The server has a HPE Ethernet 100Gb 1-port 842QSFP28 Adapter for the network interface. We have a custom linux kernel that ...
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Dell PowerEdge R740 stuck in boot loop with UEFI0116 error

LOOOOONG story short, I killed my HBA. I have a spare so I popped it in, and now I'm getting the following screen when I boot: I hit a key and go into the config, then click on the LSI Driver listed ...
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When executing command ethtool -S ethX instead of expected statistics following message is displayed: "no stats available"

It ethtool command only fails on ethtool -S ethX. If I run the command ethtool -i ethX it shows the expected data. This is on RHEL8. It's a known issue apparently, since Redhat itself has a solution, ...
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amd keyid microsoftaik.azure.net does not exist

I have read all posts about this, try every solution and nothing work. To sum up, currently I have: clean install of Windows 11 Pro (legit activation) all updates applied The TPM module is on and ...
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nvidia driver not present on debian bullseye after installing cuda

I'm trying to get nvidia gpu drivers and related software installed / upgrades on a debian bullseye system and having trouble. I tried following the instructions for installing cuda, but when I get ...
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How can I reattach the PCI device when fell off the bus with `unknown header type 7f`

Recently my device experience network problem from time to time. In the end, I found one of the NIC may have some issue when using the r8169 driver and recent kernel updates: 6.0->6.2 I try to re-...
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xhci_hcd errors on CentOS 6 for cp210x device

We have very old CentOS 6 installed on CheckWay Sherman with Linux kernel 2.6.32-696.1.1.el6.i686. We try to integrate external usbserial scales device but there are errors settings UART speed. stty -...
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How to view I/O bridge in linux?

My laptop lenovo legion r7000 2020 env (with amd r7 4800h cpu): $ uname -a Linux CzgArch 6.3.8-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed, 14 Jun 2023 20:10:31 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux Recently when I searched ...
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Server shutdown hangs (when oss/lynxtwo driver does not load properly)

I have re-installed Ubuntu 22.04.2 in my server used primarily for audio via OSS driver (v4) with LynxTwo card. It worked well for few days but then the reboot/shutdown started to hang (had to power ...
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Verify all drivers for all the devices are loaded in ESXi host

Host, Manufacturer: Supermicro Model: SYS-1029U-TN10RT ESXi, Product: VMware ESXi Version: 7.0.3 Build: Releasebuild-21424296 Update: 3 Patch: 85 Installed using iPXE, (not sure if relevant) #!ipxe ...
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Roll back HP Universal Print Driver

I recently installed the latest PostScript HP Universal Print Driver on my Windows print server, but it turned out that the driver was buggy. I reverted the server virtual machine to a snapshot taken ...
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trouble with Oracle Sun SAS 6GB/s pci-e drivers

I got a new card for my server, a Sun SAS card (SG-XPCIESAS-GEN2-Z), and now I cannot get it to work. I tried many LSI drivers, many Adaptec drivers, but none work, some even crash. Card P/N is ...
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How does the mlx5 driver use the IOVA generated by IOMMU as DMA address?

I have enabled IOMMU on the physical machine. I expect the RDMA NIC to use the IOVA allocated by the IOMMU module for DMA after enabling IOMMU. However, in reality, the RDMA NIC does not use the IOVA ...
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How do I edit a PPD file for CUPS?

I have a networked printer (Canon iP8720) and it mostly works just fine out of the box with CUPS on Kubuntu 22.10. However the printer is capable of borderless printing, higher resolution than the ...
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How do I fix amdgpu and amdgpu-dkms packages not installing?

I'm trying to install the amdgpu package and it throws a bunch of errors: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following packages were ...
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RHEL server + what is the meaning of the kernel messages about Hung TX queue XX

We have 524 RHEL machines. in our Hadoop cluster ( all machines are DELL HW ) all machines are RHEL 7.2 version (old kernel version) uname -r 3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64 last week we seen the following ...
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How to install Wifi dervers Realtek RTL8723BE/RTL8188EE 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Drivers in cent os 7

i was using Realtek RTL8723BE/RTL8188EE 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Drivers when I was using windows but after centos installation, my wifi adapter is not showing please anyone help me with this?
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Is it possible to disable and re-enable on-board PCI devices in Linux?

So as the title suggests, Is there a way I can disable and re-enable PCI devices or on-board devices on Linux using Terminal like the disable and enable device functions in Windows' Device Manager. I ...
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How to pass driver parameters via dkms?

I am trying build/install a driver via dkms. I have successfully started the driver with its default parameters but not sure how to add optional params? For example to install the driver using insmod ...
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how can I list all static builtin drivers in kernel, such as pcieport and pciehp?

with lspci I can see things like: Slot: 00:02.0 Class: PCI bridge [0604] Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. [1b36] Device: QEMU PCIe Root port [000c] Driver: pcieport In dmesg I can see pcieport 0000:00:02.0: ...
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Do nvidia drivers need reinstalling after changing memory slots on Linux (UEFI)?

I've changed the memory slots (took out a set of 3x32Gb and put a fresh set of 3x32Gb of ECC type) on a Linux computer with Ubuntu 22.04 and upon reboot, the nvidia-smi command complained that the ...
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Installing virtio drivers on windows server 2016

I am trying to install virtio drivers on a VPS I bought and i installed a windows server on via an unintended method. But I am stuck... I don't have an internet connection to the server. So I cant ...
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How to connect/reboot to PC without monitor or remote access? Accidentally enabled X11 and can't undo it

I recently tried setting up an Intel NUC for remote access but it required a display to be connected -- I am using Ubuntu 18.04 (maybe 20.04, I can't check). So I installed the X11 dummy driver ...
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Fixing bad network drivers on 2019 DC S2D installation

I am helping to troubleshoot an existing Windows failover cluster on Windows Server 2019 Data Center. The cluster is set up to use Storage Spaces Direct (http://aka.ms/s2d) but there are problems ...
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Virtualizing Solaris 2.5.1 (1995)

Posting here instead of unix exchange because although unix is the suject, this should apply to other non-nix OSs. Our development team has been asked to automate some tasks that happen to interact ...
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Offline install of all win 10 printer drivers

I want to download the whole set of printer drivers that Microsoft does not distribute anymore since Windows 7 and install/deploy them without windows update or internet access. I am aware that I can ...
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Printer Management

On our network we are getting an error every time we attempt to add a printer or sometimes print to printers. The error states that new drivers are needed to installed to print however we are using ...
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PTP support for RTL8125B-CG NIC in Ubuntu 20.04

I have an RTL8125B-CG NIC which, from what I gather from their product page, has hardware support for PTP. However, sudo ethtool -T does not detect any HW timestamping capabilities. I've tried with ...
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How to run service after kernel module is loaded

I have been breaking my head over this the last few hours. On one of my machines the intel-rapl-msr driver is buggy and reloading it fixes the issue. I thought I could trivially create a service that ...
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Ubuntu server 20.04 LTS - Installing nvidia & cuda installs gnome as well

I have a GPU server which requires cuda for example for machine learning tasks. unfortunately, as soon as I install the NVIDIA drivers and cuda, apparently a variant of gnome is installed as well. ...
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Force-unload or reset a crashed linux driver

What options do I have to hard-reset a linux driver? I have a problem with my USB-connected dvb tuners. They crash from time to time with a stack trace in the kernel log and disappear from the device ...
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HP 1/8 G2 medium changer not detected in Oracle Linux 8

I have a HP 1x8 G2 Autoloader that connected to a SAN switch, on my VMware environment I have an Oracle Linux that should work with the tape. The problem is after connecting tape to VM, medium changer ...
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Dpinst is showing the UI screen even after sending silent parameters, how to fix that?

The OS version: The Dpinst window I am seeing: The command I am using to suppress the window, but not working here. "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\IA\Eclipse\FTDI Drivers\dpinst64.exe&...
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ixgbe eth0: initiating reset due to tx timeout and ixgbe eth0: Reset adapter

Server interfaces are flapping sometimes. It happens randomly. We are getting below logs in dmesg and similar logs are being captured in syslog as well. OS: OS-Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 4.9.0-12-...
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How to troubleshoot missing hardware functionality in Win 10 PE WDS boot environment

I am working to inject drivers into our Windows 10 PE WDS boot environment. First hurdle was getting the correct NIC driver installed, but now that is done I am hitting a wall in getting the touchpad ...
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Install not signed driver in Windows 2019 with no prompt

I want to install the not signed driver in the Azure DevOps pipeline (windows-2019 image). Driver is in the form of the .inf file. On the local machine i am using the following command: pnputil -i -a ...
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Linux module load

I have one question one of my Linux box which is RHEL 7.8 the module joydev is loaded on one server but not on the other server. Server A => Module joydev is loaded successfully Server b => ...
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Batch: How to remove a network printer //server/printer if V4 driver is installed?

All Windows client computers use a network printer //server/printer with V4 driver. The current version of the driver on the server side is V3. I want to remove the V4 printer and reinstall the ...
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Print jobs are getting stuck in the queues of the printers on the Print server (Windows server 2016)

Print jobs are getting stuck in the queues of the printers on the Print server (Windows server 2016) The printout are being printed only after the affected printers are physically restarted. The ...
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Windows Server 2003 not trusting any device driver (including native ones)

Background: Several legacy Windows Server 2003 systems need to be migrated from VMware to Azure. Yes, we know they have a legacy OS. Yet we have to keep them running. And this is (at least partly) ...
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is it ok to combine one machine with network driver ixgbe and other machine with network driver i40e

we have two rhel server redhat 7.6 and redhat 7.2 on the first server 7.2 , the network driver is driver: ixgbe on the second server rhel 7.6 the network driver is driver: i40e dose redhat Linux ...
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revive an old QLogic IBA7322 Infiniband card on CentOS8.2

I have a few HP Blades Gen7 equipped with QLogic Infiniband cards IBA7322 which I would like to use with CentOS 8. The problem I have is that I cannot find the right drivers for them. All the ...
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