Questions tagged [drivers]
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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Is there a quick way to see what filesystem filter drivers are loaded on Windows 2008?
The question says it all, I think. I vaguely remember there was an easy way to do this, but don't remember what it was.
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Virtual Sound Card for Windows Server? [closed]
i have some software running on a server which requires a sound card to be installed.
i'm trying to find a virtual, or emulated, sound card driver for Windows 2000 Server. It doesn't have to play ...
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What is the reason for choosing a different print processor?
Almost every time I've had to change the print processor for a printer, it's because it's set to something other than WINPRINT/RAW. Granted, fax software sometimes makes use of other print processors, ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 - RDSH - Registry bloat with Samsung Universal Print Driver
While running multiple Windows Server 2008 R2 RDSH farms we are experiencing an issue where the RDSH servers all are having their Registry bloated to the maximum value 2048MB. Using Sysinternals ...
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HP Universal Print Drivers Incredibly Slow
We recently migrated to a Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Server (SP2) as a print server. For the most part, we found that it wasn't too hard to get both a x64 and a x86 driver for the printers we ...
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How to install Oracle OLE drivers for use in SQL Server 2008 R2 x64
As per standard procedure we've been using for years for previous versions of both Oracle and SQL Server, I have installed Oracle's latest ODAC package, which includes the Oracle OLE driver onto our ...
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Seemingly Random Components on DL380 G5 No Longer Work After Applying Updates
I have a DL380 G5 running Windows Server 2008 R2 that just had two update bundles applied to it and as a result I have several crucial components that no longer work. The update bundles that were ...
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GUI tools to administer Linux Box
What GUI tools do you advise to improve the usability of Linux for those accustomed to doing system administration the windows-way?
Users new to Linux often get confused when they need to configure ...
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What is the added value of installing Dell / HP / IBM / etc. supplied drivers?
I manage a couple of hundred Linux servers, most of which are HP, if they are not virtualized. Historically, we have installed the HP ProLiant Support Pack (PSP) since before I started working here. ...
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windows server 2012 resolution woes with vga
I have two windows vms, windows server 2012 and windows server 2008. Both use kvm and libvirt. I recently decided I wanted to increase my screen resolution options, which required changing from the ...
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How do I tell which kernel module is servicing a /dev device?
How do I find out which kernel module (as seen by typing lsmod) is servicing a particular device in /dev ?
In other words, say I have a device, /dev/mouse0 and I want to find out which kernel module ...
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How does Linux determine the SCSI address of a disk?
Greetings,
I'm working with RHEL 5.5 guest VMs under VMware ESX 4. When I configure the virtual disks in the VM hardware settings, each disk has a SCSI address in the format "N:M". For example, "1:3" ...
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What are the advantages of using Hyper-V's synthetic drivers?
We are moving our virtualization platform from Citrix's XenServer to Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2. As part of this project I need to migrate, in one form or another, some Debian Linux servers ...
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How to use AD/GPO/Print Services to "push out" a new printer driver to replace a broken one? How did my server get a broken driver?
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We have an AD/GPO-managed corporate network with a little over a hundred PCs running Windows 7 x64, and a few managed printers. Our Server2008R2 primary domain controller is configured as a ...
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Is there a non spammy, no registering, free site to download old drivers?
From time to time I need to reinstall some ancient system. Replace hardware with other abandoned hardware. Whenever I search for drivers Google returns sites requiring logins and/or payment. Where are ...
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How do I remove a driver completely on a Windows XP client machine?
I have a client (XP SP3) machine where newer drivers have been installed.
Unfortunately while these (audio) drivers fixed mic boost, they have introduced problems such as no input working and ...
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Must I install every possible printer driver for RDP clients?
I have users connecting with remote desktop and some have things like Quicken which has a PDF driver installed on their machines at home.
We want them to be able to redirect to print at home, but do ...
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Alternative/mirror site for HP drivers
I'm not able to download any printer driver from the HP site. Is there an alternative or mirror site where drivers are just archived or cached?
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How to install VMware 5.5 and higher on HP BL460c G6
I have an HP ProLiant BL460c G6 with the HP NC532i Dual Port 10Gbe BL-c Adapter installed. VMware won't install on this machine stating the network device is not found. This happens with both the ...
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Install a windows driver without the unsigned warning appearing
I'm trying to create a batch install file and one of the tasks it does is install a 3rd party driver. This is unsigned and so pops up a warning and causes the rest of the script to fail on Windows XP ...
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Running Windows Server OS on a regular desktop machine
I was thinking of running maybe Windows Server 2008 or Windows Home Server on my home computer. But before I did the formatting etc, I would like to know if this is even possible. And I am then ...
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Good/free tool or way to backup drivers
What is good free tool to backup all currently installed hardware drivers, or is there manual way to do it too?
Also, simple way to restore backed up collection of drivers to fresh reinstalled system, ...
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Server 2008 R2 - Unable to install any printer drivers
My problem is exactly this same as described here:
Server 2008 R2 - Unable to install any printer drivers Options - google groups
I have few Windows 2008 R2 (no SP1) servers in remote offices, ...
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Can't get USB/IP to work
I have Ubuntu 16.04, and USB cash device plugged on it.
I want to share this cash device through USBIP. So I plugged this device and
usbip list --local
Then I see my device (emphasized with bold)
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Intel NIC X540-T1 non-functional in Ubuntu Server 12.04
I have installed three Intel X540-T1's in servers running Ubuntu Server 12.04, but all are non-functional, no link lights, no packets sent or received, and no connection on ip4 or ip6 whether set up ...
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Purge print driver cache on windows 7 with powershell script
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We have been having trouble with our network clients suddenly being unable to print. They get an odd error with a hex code. We determined that something in the driver was messed up and ...
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Force Install "Wrong" Driver Hyper-V Server
So I've spent the last few hours trying to resolve this and have had no luck.
I have a Hyper-V 2016 Server running on AMD hardware. It has an ASUS TPM (though I've tried a Gigabyte TPM as well). ...
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Descriptions of Ethernet register/counter names?
Is there a manual/datasheet/some other resource that explains what do all these counters in ethtool -S <interface> mean? Some of them are self-explainatory, some aren't...
I'm taking them from ...
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How do I install the pdo_mysql driver on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1?
I have a RHEL box running PHP 5.3.3, which was installed using the binary packages provided by yum. I have installed the php-pdo package:
# yum info php-pdo
Loaded plugins: product-id, rhnplugin, ...
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The same driver for multiple network cards -- performance bottleneck?
I'm using driver e1000e for multiple Intel network cards (Intel EXPI9402PT, based on 82571EB chip). The problem is that when I'm trying to utilize maximum speed (1GB) on more than one interface, speed ...
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Lotus NotesSQL Driver - cannot install
I need to install Lotus NotesSQL Driver (current version is 8.5) onto a virtual machine running XP. Here's what's I've done so far:
I retrieved the file (CZOWFEN.zip) from the IBM website.
I ran the ...
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windows server sharing printers, why does local machine need driver?
I bumped into this at work today, and I don't have a good answer. To elaborate, we have a windows print server sharing several printers. If you connect to this printer share with a windows client, it ...
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Installing OpenVPN on Windows7
It seems I cannot install the current version of OpenVPN (2.1.2) because the TAP driver is not signed and therefore windows 7 x64 refuses to install it.
It shows up in the device manager, but with a ...
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apt-get dist-upgrade failing on mssql-tools and msodbcsql17 packages, ubuntu 16.04
I did regular upgrade of packages as always and something broke, cant even purge the packages due broken dependencies. The server is Ubuntu 16.04 on Azure. We are using MySQL on this server, so this ...
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How common are Intel igb NIC drivers/cards, compared to Intel e1000, etc.?
I'm troubleshooting VMware ESXi host network and connectivity issues stemming from the use of Intel NICs who require the igb driver.
The chipset is Intel Corporation 82576.
VMware has a few ...
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How to automate driver installation from .exe
I need to create an image which upon its first boot detects the graphics card type and installs the appropriate drivers before taking the next steps. This means I need to automate the installation ...
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Weird "missing" CD/DVD driver during Windows Server 2008 installation
We have an old PowerEdge 860 that we're trying to install Windows Server 2008 R2 onto. At present the machine doesn't have any OS installed, so we're doing a clean install from a DVD. Pretty simple ...
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Windows 2003 ODBC Issues - Error 10055
Using data integrator for ETL's pulling data from DB2 to SQL Server, after some time, will get these odbc errors:
Communication link failure. comm
rc=10055 - CWBCO1003 - Sockets error,
function ...
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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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Windows List Network Driver Stack?
I think there is a rougue filter driver in the Windows driver stack.
Are there any tools which will allow me to see the stack and all loaded drivers? In a nice tree format?
I know there is ...
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Driver corruption when deploying Dell Touchpad Drivers (with software) during imaging process
We're an sccm shop, and use it to deploy Windows. When deploying Dell laptops (multiple models), the touchpad drivers seem install properly, but the software doesn't. The resulting problem is that ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Drivers Missing Would Not Install? [closed]
I am building my dev machine with WS2008R2SP1. I consider Windows Server as the best development environment for C# since I tend to focus on server-centric (integration) applications. The desktop ...
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IBM LTO 3 Tape drive periodically going "offline"
I have a problem with a LTO 3 Tape Drive. I'm using Brightstor ArcServe Backup software with Windows Server 2003.
Sometimes, the scheduled backups will stop working and going into "devices" inside ...
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Deploy Printers To Non-Admin User Through GPO
Trying to deploy printers to Windows 7 x64 computers for NON-ADMIN users. Server is a 2008R2 running Print Management. 3 Printers are HP LaserJets installed on the print server.
I have used Print ...
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Adaptec pm80xx Driver Drops Drives Randomly
I'm building a ZFS NAS using an Adaptec ASA-71605H HBA on Ubuntu 12.04.4.
Modern Linux kernels ship with the open-source version of the required pm80xx kernel module. Adaptec provides a driver for ...
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FreeBSD ixgbe driver not working
I recently got a brand new Dell PowerEdge R610 server, I installed VMWare ESXi 5.0 on it and attempted to install FreeBSD as guest OS for squid caching.
The server has a PCI-E Intel X520-T2 10Gig ...
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What key parts of a Linux server are worth chasing drivers for?
I have a spare Dell Poweredge 2800 server that had a couple of drives crash and has been inactive. I decided to bring it to life as an Asterisk server - experimenting with Asterisk and Linux. We ...
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Barriers preventing from deploying 64-bit OS in workstations?
At my workplace, our servers have run 64-bit OSes for years. But the workstations are a problem. Very few applications and drivers work well on 64-bit OSes. Those few cases are enough to prevent the ...
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Alternatives to DriverPacks for Windows system deployment images?
I managed to prepare a Windows 7 Professional image with sysprep for deployment to a wide variety of hardware, and so far it works fairly well.
It currently installs drivers upon first boot after ...
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"System cannot find the file specified" trying to reinstall network driver
After uninstalling Symantec Enpoint Protection (manually) one computer (Windows XP) has an inoperative NIC; it shows up in device manager as conflicted.
I tried doing a windows repair from CD, which ...