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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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Software Based RAID? Via OS or Controller?

So, I just discovered that the RAID controller within my Dell Precision 470 is software based. I never recognized until now that Adaptec CERC stood for "Cost Effective Raid Controller"... amazing. According to this lovely Dell datasheet, it appears…
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PowerEdge 2800 Server - PERC 4e/Di RAID -- Installing Windows

Have the above server (got it for free) with the PERC 4e/Di raid controller inside (according to dell's site). I've downloaded the drivers to a floppy. The Windows Server 2003 Install disk recognizes the fact these disks exist and that the drivers…
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Linksys wireless NIC won't reconnect after coming out of hibernate

I recently bought a Linksys WMP110 wireless PCI NIC for my XP machine. It works fine, except when I take it out of hibernate it sometimes won't reconnect or even see any wireless networks. I have to reboot for it to work again. I figured there might…
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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 7056272 and from what I know it uses a standard PM8001c…
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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 with an industrial equipment running, get this,…
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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 Xerox global driver. On my computer for example, I…
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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 the r8169 driver and with the r8125 driver from…
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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 driver_name.inf but it shows a security prompt.…
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Windows Server 2003 on components that have no driver support

I recently got an i5 processor on an ASUS P7P55D LE motherboard to act as a cheap server only to realise that there are no windows 2003 drivers for the chipset and network. I haven't tried yet but can I install the XP drivers onto a 2003 machine and…
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Can i install a driver in Windows Server Core docker container?

We have an app that requires a driver. As an experiment and for testing purposes, we thought to deploy it using a docker image based on mcr.microsoft.com/windows/servercore:1903-amd64. The host operating system is Windows 10 1903 which is a dev…
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Hyper-V 2019 Server network drivers

What OS driver is used for Hyper-V 2019 server (host) network adapters? Is it a Windows 2012 Server or Windows 10 driver?
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Installing drivers into docker image for kubernetes deployment

I am accessing a USB Card reader on an Ubuntu 18.04 node. Here is what is installed on the Ubuntu 18.04 node to access the USB Card reader: sudo apt-get install pcscd sudo apt-get install pcsc-tools // same as pcsc-lite …
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SCO OS 6 Driver for LSIL SAS1064E Raid Controller

A client has an SCO OpenServer Server 6.0, that is running on an HP ProLiant Box and they lost the root password. Its equipped with a Doal-Core Intel Pentium Processor. They don't have any media or emergency disk anymore. I tried to boot with the…
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SHA256 timestamps from comodo vs symantec for 2008r2 drivers

When signing a cab with a sha256 EV certificate we wanted to also use a sha256 timestamp. When trying with the comodo (where we got the EV cert) server we tried: /tr http://timestamp.comodoca.com/?td=sha256 /td sha256 and /tr…
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Installing correct ethernet controller driver on Windows 10 Pro

I cloned a PC and it turned out to be a different model so many of the drivers need to be reinstalled without internet access. Currently trying to get the Ethernet Controller device driver installed. My system info: Model: Dell OptiPlex 7060 Type:…
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