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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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Do Red Hat drivers work on CentOS?

I'm thinking on buying a Dell PowerEdge T310. It's marked as certified hardware in Red Hat HCL, but I'd like to use CentOS. I know CentOS it's built from the RHEL sources, but do RHEL drivers work on CentOS?
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x64 print driver keeps asking for x64 windows disk

I'm trying to install x64 printer drivers on a Windows 2003 R2 Standard x86 print server. I downloaded the amd64 folder locally to the server. When I try to install the x64 bit print driver it asks for NTPrint.inf and it auto points to my cd drive…
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Use a RAID Controller without drivers?

Ordered an Adaptec 1420SA RAID card for my Debian Squeeze media server but didn't check to see if it was compatible, turns out it's not because it uses something called hostRAID which requires special drivers that aren't available for Debian. Could…
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Installing drivers on a Windows system using WinPE Preinstallation Environment

How can I install an INF driver to WinPE 3.0 when it is mounted with DISM? Once WinPE 3.0 is running, how can I install drivers, using their INF, to an offline system? The offline system can be Windows 7, Vista OR XP.
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Find CCISS version

I'm currently running Ubuntu 10.10 and would like to just find out what version of HP's CCISS RAID array driver I'm running. I've looked around hpacucli and couldn't find anything. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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Printer Management in AD Domain

I normally push out all my printers via group policy preferences. However, the new copy machines I have are using some stranger drivers and I can not install x64/x86 drivers on the same machine for my clients to pull drivers from. So now I have two…
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HP4050, Windows 7 64 Bit, Printer Sharing from Windows Server

If I use a 'local printer' 'tcp port', I can print to an HP 4050 over the network from a Windows 7 64 bit machine using the Universal HP printer drivers (I happened to use Postscript). However, the same printer is also shared from a Windows (2003)…
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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 did not improve the situation. When I went to…
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Error when exporting printers and drivers from Windows Server 2008 R2

I'm trying to copy the printers and drivers from a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine to another server. I went to the Print Management console and right clicked on Print Management, then clicked on Migrate Printers and exported the printers and drivers…
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ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server

Morning, Some background: Recently upgraded database and web servers from Server 2008R2 => 2016 OS Recently upgraded database instances from SQL Server 2008R2 => 2016 Recently upgraded the ODBC driver to ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server Using DSN's.…
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qfle3 driver crashing VMWare hosts - solved reverting to bnx2i legacy drivers

It's been happening for a while now. Several different hosts, dell hosts, using "QLogic 57810 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter" network cards have been failing for a while now while using the native qfle3 driver. We tried disabling the load balancing…
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Intel 82599 in CentOS 7 - No suitable device found for this connection

I have recently installed a server with CentOS 7, this was installed whilst the network card was present. The card is a Intel 82599ES 10Gb LC fiber NIC attached to the PCI slot of the server. The device does appear on the system: #lspci | grep -i…
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Moving docker storage to new (encrypted) location

I am trying to move docker image storage. OS Linux Mint 18.3 I tried multiple approaches including: daemon-configuration-file /etc/docker/daemon.json { "graph": "/new/dir/docker"} modifying DOCKER_OPTS ("-g /new/dir/docker") even changing the…
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Why does Windows have an "hp" and a "Hewlet Packard" set of printer drivers?

I was trying to install a driver for an old HP printer and was confused to find two seperate folders: one name "hp" and the other "hewlett packard." Each contained a different set of printer drivers, but both set of drivers are from the same…
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Are there standard, non-Postcript alternatives to PPDs for informing print queue software such as Cups of printer capabilities?

Postscript printer description files (PPDs) describe Adobe Postscript (PS) printers’ capabilities, thus being useful both for print queue servers and printing clients. Are there equivalents for other page languages, such as Microsoft Graphics…
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