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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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Printing to Xerox with XSA accounting from Linux

My company has a lot of Ubuntu 12.04 desktops and a new Xerox ColorQube 8900S networked printer. Using the .ppd file from Xerox I can print to the printer fine, unless XSA accounting is turned on. At this point no jobs are accepted, getting a "the…
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Obtain device driver version and associated GUID using PowerShell?

Right now, I am getting two separate objects A Win32_NetworkAdapter WMI object A Win32_PnpSignedDriver WMI object In my previous scripts, I've made sure I was calling separate objects, and relating them by the GUID $mydev = Get-WmiObject…
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Determine which device(s) cause(s) high CPU via interupts in Process Explorer

I have a Windows 2003 server that occasionally hangs. When it hangs, I can still use it through the console, but externally, it is completely unresponsive. It won't even respond to pings. However, restarting it returns it to a normal state for…
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Windows 2003 server with SCSI card unusable : how to boot from SCSI to PATA?

We have a Windows 2003 with SCSI disks on a RAID card. The SCSI card is now unusable. As the server is old, we don't want to buy an identical SCSI card, we prefer to change the server. But we first need to boot this Windows 2003 in order to do some…
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HP Printer Malfunction (Virus?)

i'm having serious problems with several HP Printers. The issue is the following: my printer (different models) prints random ASCII character on the first line of a paper ( image sample: http://tinyurl.com/d2744sk ) and prints several papers ( 50+…
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Openstack: Making a windows 2008 R2 image with virtio support

When installing windows 2008 R2 in kvm on a virtio disk, it seems there is no support for drivers. Even after installing the drivers I wasn't able to install windows to the image. This because windows doesn't see the image as bootable. So how to…
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Hard drive space managed like virtual memory?

I'm wondering if this is possible and if there's an implementation of this concept: Imagine that I have a 1 GB RAM disk, a 1 TB internal hard drive and a 10 TB NAS on my LAN. Would it be possible to have a virtual drive that has 10 TB of space…
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bonding driver in centos 5.5,mode balance-rr not work

i've creat a bonding interface in centos 5.5,i chose mode balance-rr,using slave eth6 and eth7,and the link of eth6 and eth7 is ok,here is the configuration file: [root@50:B3:42:00:00:A3 network-scripts]# cat ifcfg-bond1…
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Possible to use Azure xDrive (PageBlob) with on-premises Windows 2008R2

Azure's Windows 2008R2 based hosts currently use blob storage for something called XDrive. Since this is just a driver and a few other system components, has anyone figured out what files need to be present on a (non Azure hosted) 2008R2 server to…
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Inserting drivers into BartPE ISO image?

Is it possible to insert drivers (sata) directly into an BartPE image, or would I have to build it from scratch?
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Tricerat Screwdrivers alternative

Is there another solution I could use instead of http://www.tricerat.com/products/screwdrivers I have used them but the maintenance expired and now we have to move our servers from 2003 to 2008 and these guys are somewhat lacking in support and…
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Network driver updated - linux still loading the old driver version

I recently updated the bnx2 network driver of one server. If I display infomations about the module, it shows me correctly the new version, 2.0.23b. modinfo bnx2 filename: /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/bnx2.ko version: …
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Event ID: 2019, Empty nonpaged pool

I need to troubleshoot Event ID: 2019, Empty nonpaged pool errors. I have found a lot of articles, like http://support.microsoft.com/kb/177415 It sounds that debugging driver-leaks is a labor-intensive affair. Before I dive into it, I would…
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How do "driver scanner" applications work?

For example, how does "Driver Scanner" from uniblue work? I mean, I know it's some kind of scam, but they need to provide some kind of service, after people pay for this app. So how does the full version work? Does it really improve anything, or is…
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How do I configure a USB ethernet adapter under CentOS 5.3?

I've got a server running CentOS 5.3 (Final; kernel version 2.6.18) which I need to add a 2nd NIC to, initially temporarily, but eventually permanently. I'm not familiar with installing drivers under Linux and have only used…
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