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configuring huawei e303e dongle on arm9 embedded board
i have been trying to connect 3g modem on arm9 board. bot modem is not getting detected.
here is my lsusb:
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID ...
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How to force a driver to take care of a certain device?
I have this problem: my motherboard (AM2NF6G-VSTA from ASRock) has a Nvidia chip (MCP61) that, among other things, manages the on-board NIC. However my Linux kernel sees it as if it was a "Bridge" (?) ...
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Machine needs F1 key to reboot, how to skip this?
Each time the machine (Linux, RHEL) reboots, it waits for F1 key to be pressed in order to continue the boot process. How can I skip this ?
These are the message :Node3 DRAM uncorrected ECC ...
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Cant see my wireless internal card on BackTrack 5
I have BackTrack 5 R3 installed on VMware and its on bridged connection so it gets its own ip on my network and it works I get internet connection but there is no ethernet cable connected yet somehow ...
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Intel Wifi card module not visible in linux menuconfig
I've gotten myself into a pickle it seems. I just got the latest gentoo kernel (3.7.10), and it seems that they didn't include my wireless lan driver in the menuconfig (or it depends on another option ...
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How to use a handycam as a Web Cam in linux
Can I use a camcorder as V4L2src in gstreamer? Simply can I use a camcorder as a webcam in Linux? If so what models are sported?
Thanks in advance.
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Making the keyboard eject switch work
I am using Linux.My keyboard switch for ejecting the CDROM does not work though it displays an eject button on the screen. I need to make it work. I know ejecting a cdrom using system call is as ...
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Wifi not working in ubuntu
I m trying to work wifi in ubuntu 10.04 lts on HP pavilion dv6 laptop. I m new to Ubuntu
I tried many thing , that were present online with Broadcom. I feel Broadmcom is not present.
Please find ...
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Right click not working in Redhat enterprise Linux
I have recently installed Red hat enterprise Linux on my Hp laptop. Earlier both the mouse clicks were not working, but I managed to get the left click working by tapping by some help from Google. But ...
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Serial Communication vs Device Drivers
My understanding is that serial communication is for direct CPU-to-CPU (or microcontroller-to-microcontroller) communication along a serial bus.
My understanding is that a device driver is for ...
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How to update glx 1.3 version on Debian with ATI RV280 GPU?
My GPU is ATI RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE] (rev 01), and I'm running Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.5 (squeeze). How can I update to glx 1.3?
What I've tried so far:
I used the command aptitude install ...
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Grub installer has been deleted in ubuntu
I was installing an operating system (Fedora) in Virtual box which was installed in the Ubuntu Natty Narhwal. it asked me to format the disk (which should format inside virtual machine), which I did ...
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To use linux-based cellphone's webcam as a laptop's
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I have a four-year old thinkpad laptop without built-in webcam and I also have a cellphone running Linux ( Nokia N900 ). So I'm wondering if it's possible to use my cellphone's camera as a ...
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Unable to write into character device file in Ubuntu
I just written a linux character driver. I created one character device file named X. I can see that file in /dev folder. Now I want to do some read/write operation into this file. I opened the filed ...
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Compiling and installing a new kernel on ubuntu 10.04
I have ubuntu 10.04 running on VMware on a windows host. I am learning linux device drivers programming. So in the process, I was trying to set up a linux source tree and build and load a custom ...
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How to change a Linux kernel driver?
Let's suppose I have an ISDN PCI card. With lspci -k I can see that the kernel driver b1pci is loaded. Now I know that I can load and unload kernel modules with insmod respectively rmmod but how can I ...
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How to Find Out What Version of Dispaly Driver is Installed
One of my favourite games, "Wolfenstein Enemy Territory", has stopped working lately. It throws a segfault during the initialisation phase.
I suspect that the reason is a recent update to the video ...
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OPENGL ES for imx6
since I am working on porting of OPENGL drivers for imx6 boards. Can anyone tell me where these driver sources are available.I need to port OPENGL drivers to imx6 which is not using any windowing ...
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Linux equivalent of Windows Device Manager / DevCon utility?
I was wondering if there is any Linux equivalent to Windows Device Manager, or the Windows DevCon utility (a command line utility with hardware management functionality).
Do drivers even work the ...
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How do I run amddriverdownloader.exe on Ubuntu?
I downloaded amddriverdownloader.exe to update my Radeon HD 5450 on Ubuntu 11.10. When I run it it returns with this:
jack@myComputer:~/Downloads$ amddriverdownloader
amddriverdownloader: command ...
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How to make ^T work for the status char under Linux?
I’ve grown really accustomed to the BSD status char, ^T, since I first started using it back at university during the 80s. It didn’t originate with BSD, but came from even older operating systems. It ...
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Fedora Linux: Way to use stty (or equivalent) to bind key to raise SIGUSR1 for application?
I'm using FC 14, but this is probably a fairly generic Linux question.
I want to be able to bind a key in the Linux terminal driver that will cause a signal other than SIGINT or SIGQUIT to be raised ...
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Unauthorized mount hd ubuntu 10.04
Hey, I am trying to mount my hd on ubuntu by I receive this message "No possible mount location - Not Authorized".
It happened after some upgrades on system, and the sound stoped too.
here is my ...
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Atheros LAN card driver, Linux compiling problem
I have installed openSUSE 11.4 to my new workstation. It says that there is Attansic ETHERNET controller on board. But no devices seen. I typed: lspci and it returned: atheros communications device ...
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Ubuntu sound card driver
Where can I search for a sound card driver in Ubuntu?
Should I use sudo apt-cache search ???
I don't know which command can I use to find my exactly sound card version in linux?
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How to make NVIDIA driver recognize my non-original LCD in Linux?
My laptop's screen was broken and I went to replace it with a new one, which is not made by lenovo and apparently have something different from the original one.
It seems that the NVIDIA driver for ...
