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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.

A driver typically communicates with the device through the computer bus or communications subsystem to which the hardware connects. Drivers are hardware-dependent and operating-system-specific.

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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 does this on boot. But I can't get the service to…
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Unable to get MX Revolution work effectively in Mac

I installed Logitech control center. I set the settings as I want them in the Preferences. However, only the Search button works. Expose and Dashboard do not work in the side buttons, for example. I am interested which files the Control manager…
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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 manager. The application (tvheadend, which runs…
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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 is not detected but tape drive is OK! $ cat…
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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" /S /Q /SA /LM /SW With or without /Q same issue
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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 working. Adding the entire CAB worth of drivers…
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RHEL 5.x SCSI Driver .img update for initrd.img

I have production DB server (RHEL 5.1) with LSI Megaraid driver loaded during setup via DUD (Driver Upd Diskett). Now I'd like to update kernel and other packeges to 5.4 version. I also downloaded new LSI SCSI driver…
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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 => Module joydev is not loaded I know I can load the module…
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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) supported by Microsoft. One critical step is of…
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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 machines with different driver can cause network…
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pcie SR-IOV driver howto

I am trying to know how linux PCIE NIC SR-IOV work. I am using a Unbuntu with Intel 82599 NIC as a host. Under NIC driver directory(ixgbe) in linux Kernel, there is a file named "ixgbe_sriov.c". I know this file may drive to make some VFs which…
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Running Ubuntu Server with GUI Desktop Environment | Dell PowerEdge R710 II

Let me start off by saying I’m completely new to using / running servers and I’m currently 2nd year CS & Business student in DCU, Ireland. I recently developed a program for automating sales invoicing at my work by using Python and AutoIT scripts,…
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Getting network UNCLAIMED in Debian 8.3

When i check for lshw , i get following result user@user# lshw -c network *-network description: Ethernet interface product: I210 Gigabit Network Connection vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 0 bus info:…
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Should I install Microsoft Redistributables not marked as "Supported"?

I have a requirement to upgrade one of our Operating Systems from Windows Server 2012R2 to Windows Server 2016. The hosted application requires numerous ODBC Drivers that in turn require a bunch of Microsoft Redistributables. My problem is that…
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Is there a way to have two versions of the same Adaptec RAID driver installed on RHEL 5 / CentOS 5?

We have an older Adaptec 5805 RAID controller on our CentOS 5 server. (I added RHEL 5 to the question because of the similarity in these Linux distributions.) An Adaptec 8805 controller was recently added, but it is not detected by even a recent…
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