e1000e & Intel Gigabit Ethernet I217-V issues
Metacomment:Not sure where to post this. Stackoverflow sent me to askubuntu, they told me it's off-topic there. Trying here again, please show some courtesy and point me in the right direction if I'm...
View ArticleTesting QinHeng Electronics HL-340 USB-Serial adapter
I have Kubuntu 14.10 development workstation and recently I have bought a QinHeng Electronics HL-340 USB-Serial adapter. HL-340 is USB<---->Serial adapter and it is recognised by my...
View Articlea problem with wifi adapters in linux mint
i had a problem with my Usb wifi adapter, so i removed manually the module used by the adapter of the built-in wifi adapter (using modprobe -r)and this solved the problem, but after some reboots when i...
View ArticleSigned kernel modules - "not signed with trusted key"
Issue:I'm trying to use signed kernel modules, but getting a failure for the insmod command:PKCS#7 signature not signed with a trusted keyThere is a potentially related error message during Linux...
View Articleobtain dkms compatible kernel sources of cross-compiled kernel
How would one go about obtaining minimal kernel sources (used for dkms) when cross-compiling for arm? The problem is, when I try to build the kernel debian packages using make deb-pkg I get a usable...
View ArticleXbox 360 controller keeps blinking
I'm trying to use my xbox 360 wireless controllers with linux mint.I was able to get all controllers (4) to link (using xboxdrv), but it was as if the right trigger was held down for all controllers,...
View ArticleGeneral protection fault when accessing input_dev from module
I started messing around with writing a Linux device driver for a T300 RS wheel I have, and my starting point was drivers/hid/hid-tmff.c. My problem is that list_entry(&hid->inputs.next, struct...
View ArticleGSPCA : Could not get descriptor
I found a old webcam in store room. The Windows detect it as Creative GO mini but lacks a driver. I plugged it in my Manjaro hoping for Linux to revive it.The device is old and use GSPCA driver. It...
View ArticleIs there a linux fs kernel driver for NTFS R/W and how does it compare to the...
Is there an out of tree linux kernel NTFS kernel driver that provides R/W capabilities?I know there's fuse+NTFS-3G, but I've had it consume way too many CPU cycles.My question is: is there a...
View ArticleCan't find installed kernel and make older kernel as default kernel
I use Linux 5.4.0 LTS in Ubuntu. Now I installed a new kernel Linux 5.6.7 stable using these commandssudo make modules_installsudo make installNow my default kernel is Linux 5.6.7. After installing the...
View ArticleWant to install VirtualBox Guest Additions on CentOS 7 but get a header...
I try to install VirtualBox Guest Additions on a CentOS 7 VM.I installed the prerequisites viasudo yum install perl gcc dkms kernel-devel kernel-headers make bzip2then I "inserted" the Guest Additions...
View Articlemodule: x86/modules: Skipping invalid relocation target
I tried to compile a module on Debian 10 (v4l2loopback) like this:sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)git clone https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopback.gitcd v4l2loopback/make -j4sudo make...
View ArticleHow to prevent XF86RFKill keypress from enabling Linux's airplane mode?
I am running Kubuntu 19.10(KDE + i3wm) on my ASUS FX505DT.The issueI am able to bind the XF86RFKill key using i3wm's bindsym but this binding doesn't seem to nullify's Linux's in-built binding which...
View ArticleIs PFIFO an engine in nouveau kernel?
I recently received the following error in my syslog:syslog:Apr 28 09:59:02 vostrodell kernel: [ 883.401212] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fb: trapped read at 0039824400 on channel 12 [3ed04000...
View Articlemodinfo doesn't change after rmmod
I am attempting to install a new version of a kernel module. To this end, I attempted to remove the old module with rmmod mod. This gave no output. When I tried modinfo mod, however, I received the...
View ArticleCannot build a kernel module against my current kernel
Since I didn't receive any help in figuring out what was wrong with my i915 driver I decided to try different versions of the module by building it myself.Following the official guide I proceeded...
View ArticleHow to set group to a module automatically?
I'm working on an embedded system with linux 4.19.I have written a custom driver in a module MyDriver.ko. At startup, the module is automatically probed by the devicetree and it appears in /dev. # ls...
View ArticleWhy does depmod keep trying to load deleted modules
I removed kernel modules installed with rpm using yum remove kmodname.The *.ko was located under /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/extra/.I run depmod -a and I get depmod: ERROR: fstatat(4, kmodname.ko.xz): No...
View ArticleWhat do drivers have to do with modules?
I need to research and find out "which drivers are loaded on my system" using /proc.In /proc there is a dir called "driver" so I thought that was it, but reading about it online, I saw I should also...
View ArticleAfter upgrading to Fedora 28: broadcom-wl installed but WiFi doesn't work
This is another one in a long line of problems of this sort.After a recent upgrade from Fedora 27 to Fedora 28, broadcom-wl stopped working. The Broadcom adapter in question is an older BCM4312.To get...
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