New Soundmax driver for AD2000 and AD1988

There is a New Soundmax driver for AD2000 and AD1988 for Windows 7. I had tested it in my Windows 7 64bit.

I had a new Asus Crosshair II Formula motherboard from RMA the Crosshair. With the help of the new SoundMax driver, my computer work great!

Download the SoundMax driver via the FTP server:
ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/misc/audio/AD200B_6570_Win7.zip

Intel Wireless WiFi Drivers

Intel has been updating many of their drivers for Windows 7. Currently, I find some Windows 7 drivers on the Intel Download Center.

Intel Wireless WiFi Drivers Links

If you can not find win 7 drivers, try the Vista drivers for your Wireless cards in Windows 7. The Vista drivers can work especially if you install they in compatibility mode.

PC Drivers

Looking for drivers that you can't find anywhere else? If after you have searched for drivers on the manufactures site, give Driversdown.com a whirl.

http://www.driversdown.com/

Now remember, you wouldn't have to do this if you had just kept track of your software.

When you purchase a computer is usually comes with recovery disks &/or drivers. Some PC's you must order separately or after the fact but you should make sure you have these and keep in a safe place because it is no IF your computer fails but when.

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Encountering State Initializing after installing Voltaire Drivers

First thing first,

For more information on downloading the appropriate Voltaire Drivers, see blog entry Download Voltaire OFED Drivers for CentOS. After you have downloaded the appropriate and install Voltaire Drivers, you may encounter something like:

CA 'mlx4_0'
        CA type: MT26428
        Number of ports: 1
        Firmware version: 2.6.0
        Hardware version: a0
        Node GUID: 0x0008f1476328oaf0
        System image GUID: 0x0008fd6478a5af3
        Port 1:
                State: Initializing
                Physical state: LinkUp
                Rate: 40
                Base lid: 2
                LMC: 0
                SM lid: 14
                Capability mask: 0x0251086a
                Port GUID: 0x0008f103467a5af1

It is due to the Subnet Manager (opensm) not being installed. Voltaire OFED Installation package installed only the OpenIB Packages. Even if you have install the opensm before installing the Voltaire OFED Package, the Voltaire OFED Package will uninstall the existing opensm packages to ensure openib packages are fully compatible.

To install the Opensm packages nicely, do read on the blog entry Installing Voltaire QDR Infiniband Drivers for CentOS 5.4

Other good reasing materials:

1. RHEL and Infiniband - basic diagnostics

Installing Voltaire QDR Infiniband Drivers for CentOS 5.4

This blog writeup Installing Voltaire QDR Infiniband Drivers for CentOS 5.4 (linuxcluster.wordpress.com) is on how you can

1. Download the drivers from the Voltaire Website
2. Install the Infiniband Drivers
3. Install the Subnet Manager - opensmd
4. Test the State is "Active"
5. Connectivity Test between Server and Client

For more information, on Voltaire Infiniband installation, do read on

1. Voltaire OFED 1.5 User Manual
2. Infiniband HOWTO by Guy Coates

Download Voltaire OFED Drivers for CentOS

Here is the FTP site for downloading Voltaire OFED Drivers Listing. The latest drivers for CentOS is for CentOS 5.4
http://www.voltaire.com/ftp/versions/current/Software/Server_Products/VoltaireOFED-Linux/1.5/

Uninstalling Nouveau driver and Installing NVIDIA Drivers on Fedora 13

I was trying to install the proprietary NVIDIA Driver for my workstation with Fedora 13, but was unable to install due to the presence of Nouveau Driver which Fedora installed by default and this installation by Fedora caused a conflict with the intended installation of NVIDIA Driver

Source for this information is derived from a Forum http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/fedora-35/fedora-12-nouveau-nvidia-driver-solution-771248/

Step 1: Blacklist Nouveau Driver

# vim /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

Add the below line to the end of /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

blacklist nouveau

Step 2: Edit /boot/grub/grub.conf and add the following to the end of the kernel line

rdblacklist=nouveau vga=31B

Replace 31B with the desired mode:
1600x1200 - 346
1280x1024 - 31B
1400x1050 - 348
1024x768 - 318
800x600 - 315

For example:

......
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.34.6-54.fc13.i686 ro 
root=/dev/mapper/vg_kittycool-lv_root rd_LVM_LV=vg_kittycool/lv_root rd_LVM_LV=vg_kittycool/lv_swap 
rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM 
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 
KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet rdblacklist=nouveau vga=31B
......

Step 3: Download and Install NVIDIA Drivers

# chmod 755 NVIDIA......run

# ./NVIDIA......run

# reboot

Chelsio iWARP Installation and Setup Guide for CentOS 5.4

Most of this material for this blog entry is taken the documentation Guide named Chelsio iWARP installation and setup guide (pdf) . The Blog Entry ”Chelsio iWARP Installation and Setup Guide for CentOS 5.4” (Linux Cluster) is an modification from a user’s perspective of the original document from Chelsio.

Mac BootCamp supports for Windows 7

Apple has released a new version of BootCamp software. It supports for Microsoft Windows 7 perfectly. At the same time, Apple also announced the 2010 security update which fixes 12 issues.

The 3.1 version of BootCamp software supports for Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit. It includes Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate, and has built-in Apple wireless keyboard and Magic Mouse support.

iMac Late 2009 for Windows 7 Drivers package has also been released by Apple.
You can download the update here. iMac Late 2009 Windows 7 Drivers

Boot Camp Utility for Windows 7 Upgrade Software is used to safely dispose of read-only Macintosh partition.

In addition, you can download others Apple Mac OS X update.
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard update (21.90MB) Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Server update (248.11MB)
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Client update (159.58MB)