Questions tagged [modprobe]
modprobe is a Linux program and used to add a loadable kernel module (LKM) to the Linux kernel or to remove an LKM from the kernel.
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What is “options iwlwifi 11n_disable=1” in WiFi setting?
One of the common solutions for improving WiFi signal is to use this command
options iwlwifi 11n_disable=1
in
/etc/modprobe.d/iwlwifi.conf
And the number can be 0, 1, 2, 8.
I was unable to find ...
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modprobe nvidia throws error: could not insert 'off'
I am trying to configure bumblebee to switch my nvidia discrete card. As well bumblebee crashes when tries to modprobe nvidia. When i try to do it manually, i face the same error:
$ modprobe nvidia
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WiFi adaper not found on Ubuntu 18.04 [duplicate]
I cannot connect via WiFi and I've tried following the instructions in another question, but I get an error when modprobeing the module rtl8273de.
You can see the commands I ran on a clean install of ...
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Disable usb port [duplicate]
I want my computer to stop listening on a specific usb port. The problem is that the device connected there keeps disconnecting and reconnecting. I think this may be due to a hardware fault. The usb ...
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How can I renable my wifi controller after modprobe -rv?
I was trying to improve the wifi signal range, but when I executed the command sudo modprobe -rv rtl8723bemy wifi stopped working and I cannot do anything.
How I do reset the config or rollback this ...
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Does /lib/modules folder must be on root device?
Just trying out things, I mounted a btrfs subvolume on /lib/modules, installed kernel on it. Everything seemed fine. But when I modprobe any module, it returned 0 without message and did not load that ...
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Allow Keyboard and Mouse to Connect but block Pen Drive and Joysticks on Ubuntu
I want to allow all the keyboards and Mouse to connect with the ubuntu machine but want to block all pen drive and Joysticks.
I have tried this using UDEV rules, it is okay if we want to block/ allow ...
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Modprobe error lookup_builtin_file() could not open builtin file
When i do sudo modprobe *** I get error
modprobe: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:514 lookup_builtin_file() could not open builtin file '/lib/modules/3.4.75.sun5i+/modules.builtin.bin'
This error ...
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No ttyACM0 for Arduino Nano on Ubuntu. How can I attach it?
On my Firefly-RK3399 (arm arch) I have installed their official ubuntu image for the board. I also installed Arduino IDE and when I connect my Arduino UNO then all fine, I can flash it and I see in my ...
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Nouveau blacklisted but loaded
Hi I am trying to use Ubuntu-Prime for ubuntu 18 on an asus laptop with 2 GPU (intel & nvidia).
I found the power consumption of the computer to be way too high when I reboot with only the intel ...
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No sound in Ubuntu 18.04 HP notebook
Please note that I have tried all solutions in the below two links:
"Dummy Output" sound in Ubuntu 14.04
No Sound card detected in Sound Settings, although sound works
pulseaudio -k &&...
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nvidia-modprobe doesn't work, but modprobe nvidia does – NVIDIA GPU disabled?
When I first boot up my computer, nvidia-modprobe exits with an error code, without printing any message, while sudo modprobe nvidia succeeds. I dug into the source code and found the code that checks ...
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How to configure write blocker using modprobe command
I am trying to configure a write blocker (used in forensics) . Is it possible to configure usb module as read only by modprobe command in ubuntu?
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No wifi after kernel upgrade to 4.15 OR 4.16
I am on Ubuntu 16.04 and I have this network card: https://www.tp-link.com/uk/products/details/cat-11_Archer-T6E.html
With kernel 4.14.x everything is working just fine. But when upgrading to 4.15.x ...
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Ubuntu completely broke my sound device
I installed Ubuntu 17.10 in dual boot.
But, in Ubuntu, I could not play sound from the speaker, while headphones worked fine. On Windows, both headphones and speakers worked fine.
So I found this ...
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Unable to mount sftp drive using sshfs - could not open builtin file
I'm trying to mount sftp drives to my box (Ubuntu trusty - yes I know its old) however I'm getting an issue whenever I try
Output from sshfs command fuse:
device not found, try 'modprobe fuse' ...
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Usb Wifi adapter stopped working after forceful shutdown
I have a tl-wn722n. I installed the driver 8188eu using dkms and then ran it with modprobe the first time after installing ubuntu 16.04 and it was working. Now after a forceful shut down (through the ...
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What is the difference between modprobe and dkms?
Noob question here....
I read about modprobe and dkms and it seems to me they do the same thing, so what is the difference?
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In Ubuntu 17.04, for what this file is for /etc/modprobe.d/i915_disable_rc6.conf
I have found this file i915_disable_rc6.conf in folder path /etc/modprobe.d.
The file content is
options i915 enable_rc6 = 0
Anyone know for what this file is for. If I keep this file, my keyboard'...
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My wifi has stopped working! How do I fix it?
I am using Ubuntu 16.04 on my Dell Inspiron 1525 and I have Broadcom BCM4311 Network Controller and I had been using the firmware-b43-installer package and everything was OK. But there was an update ...
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VirtualBox Installation gives message “modprobe vboxdrv” failed [duplicate]
I have tried quite i few things please help.
If i try this method What I did:
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-uname -r
Reconfigure dkms and load module:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox-dkms
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Unable to disable Cramfs & vfat using /etc/modprobe.d/ conf file
I have a security requirement that calls for me to disable several file systems that are not being used to lower attack surface.
I have created a file in /etc/modprobe.d/ and some of the file systems ...
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installing virtualbox in ubuntu 16.04 [duplicate]
I have installed virtual box on my ubuntu 16.04 following instructions described here.
Last command, i.e. sudo apt install virtualbox-5.1, gave me this:
vboxdrv.sh: failed: modprobe vboxdrv failed. ...
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Modprobe and insmod [duplicate]
I was trying to install the rt8188eu drivers for my USB adapter and while trying to enable the module which I cloned from git, through modprobe sudo modprobe 8188eu it was throwing me a exec format ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 USB ports randomly fail
My GF has a Dell Vostro 3558 notebook that came with preinstalled Ubuntu 14.04 LTS system. Recently USB ports randomly fail. There's no pattern about it, no matter if the laptop is on charger or on ...
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Can't see grub 2 after disabling secure boot
I have dual booted windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS in my Hp laptop. I installed Ubuntu with secured boot option turned on. Everything was working fine.
Then I found that I was not able to install ...
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modprobe linux kernel audio module failed
briefly ubuntu 16.04.02 kernel 4.8.0-45-generic, it seems system detected audio hardware, but failed to add kernel module, when use modprobe to add module, it prints error, use dmesg show some symbol ...
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Cannot mount windows ntfs drive on Ubuntu. Error Fuse not found
I recently updated the kernel to 4.10.3 and since then I have not been able to mount windows ntfs drives. It was working perfectly fine in my old kernel 4.4.0-64.
I have disabled fast-boot on ...
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mounting iso file as loop device
I'm trying to shrink my raspberry pi images following this tutorial:
https://softwarebakery.com/shrinking-images-on-linux
root@host:~# modprobe loop # no errors returned
root@host:~# lsmod | ...
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I had to run modprobe wl after every boot
Wireless will not working unless I run:
sudo modprobe -r wl && sudo modprobe wl
In terminal, how to prevent that?
The current workaround I have is adding modprobe command to /etc/rc.local, ...
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Why isn't this module loading?
I've installed a third party package librealsense. As part of the download it sets uvcvideo to be compiled as a kernel module. Once that is done I reboot to the modified kernel. I can see my uvcvideo....
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16.04 Oct 10 update breaks wifi and libkmod
I've tried dozens of advices, mostly from askubuntu, about disabling secure boot, purging and reinstalling bcmwl-kernel-source, followed guide for signing bcmwl-kernel-source, tried changing bcmwl-...
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Failed to initialize NVML: Driver/library version mismatch [closed]
Can you please help me fix this error?
mona@pascal:~$ nvcc -V
nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver
Copyright (c) 2005-2015 NVIDIA Corporation
Built on Tue_Aug_11_14:27:32_CDT_2015
Cuda compilation ...
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Huawei USB modem - proper driver(module) is not loading
I have a Huawei E303F USB Modem. I have installed Ubuntu Studio
16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus". The modem gets detected by the network manager.
I can setup a Mobile Broadband connection in Network ...
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wlan0 still uses wrong driver?
I installed the driver from https://github.com/vincent-t/rt8192cu_dkms
which installs the 8192cu driver (replacing the native rtl8192cu driver) which should work with my TP-LINK TL-WN821N v4.1 USB ...
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VirtualBox Installation gives message “modprobe vboxdrv” failed
VirtualBox Installation gives message
sudo modprobe vboxdrv
modprobe: FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found.
I have updated system with
sudo apt-get update
followed with
reboot
Ubuntu version: 14....
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My wifi driver MT7630E seems to work fine during install and then tells me error
The route I went was straight from https://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/1796 website.
Now follow the instructions below:
extract the archive in your Downloads directory (or any other ...
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How to activate keyboard backlight from command-line? [duplicate]
using ubuntu 16 on a crappy sony vaio laptop. the keyboard backlight works fine until i put the laptop to sleep. upon waking the laptop the keyboard backlights remain off. there are no function keys ...
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SD card not working :[ 249.480884] mmc0: error -5 whilst initialising SD card
I have an issue with my recent Ubuntu. Actually I have all drivers (USB, WiFi, etc ) working fine however when I insert the SD I can't detect it.
Also I find the following error kernel log:
[ 242....
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Blacklisting a module only for specific kernel versions?
When I boot a 4.4.x kernel, I want to make sure that the buggy staging driver r8723au is blacklisted, in favor of the much-improved mainline rtl8xxxu.
However, when I boot an older 4.2.x kernel, I'll ...
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Error while running 'modprobe -v usb-storage' during 16.04 install
This is a server which already has 32 bit Ubuntu 14 installed but I would like to reinstall with 64 bit which it does support. I am trying to install Ubuntu 16.04 as I have done many times before but ...
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/etc/modprobe.d/ conf file ignored
I am trying to add a module option for the amdgpu module, but it is seemingly ignored.
/etc/modprobe.d/amdgpu.conf contents:
options amdgpu audio=1
Relevant output from modprobe -c | grep amdgpu, ...
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How to load “snd-hda-intel” at startup
I always have to type in sudo modprobe snd-hda-intel in order to get my sound card to work
I have already tried the solution to append snd-hda-intel to /etc/modules with
sudo sh -c 'echo "snd-hda-...
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Can't initialize iptables table `filter': Table does not exist (do you need to insmod?)
I'm trying to open up port 1900 for UDP in order for the Echo to be able to discover the HA Bridge using the following command but I get errors. What is the best solution to fix this?
pi@raspberrypi:~...
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How to pair Wiimote in Ubuntu 15.10?
there are other posts about the Wiimote pairing, but none of the answers helped me, most of them are form ubuntu 12.10 and ubuntu 10.04 soe they are pretty old.
the question is that Wiimote should be ...
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Swap a module at boot
I am trying to use a version of bbswitch hacked for a T450s mentioned in this issue on bumblebee-project/bbswitch. It works well and now my Nvidia 940m card turns off properly.
To install it I run ...
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Could not open builtin file modules.builtin.bin
I was trying to run modprobe fuse.
But could not get it to run. The output -
sudo modprobe fuse
modprobe: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:508 kmod_lookup_alias_from_builtin_file()
could not open ...
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How to permanently set /proc/fs/cifs/SecurityFlags
I have edited /proc/fs/cifs/SecurityFlags to allow my cifs mounts to mount correctly. (I had to use value 0x81).
To edit SecurityFlags I type 'modprobe cifs' which then lets me see the /proc/fs/cifs ...
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br_netfilter missing in ubuntu 14.04
I have the following problem when running docker.io:
Running modprobe bridge nf_nat br_netfilter failed with message: modprobe: WARNING: Module br_netfilter not found.
I tried running modprobe ...
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How to load a module in initrd?
I want to explicitly load a module (say, netconsole) during the initrd stage, similarly to /etc/modules in the main system startup procedure.
First, I checked that the initrd in my system already ...
