I'm working on migrating my Windows 7 machine over to Linux and I'm researching compatibility. I've been able to determine the main things such as my video card, processor, storage, WiFi card, etc. but I haven't been able to determine what make and model my Bluetooth card is.  Is there a way to quickly and easily determine the make and model of my Bluetooth card in Windows 7?
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I have on my desk a computer that I am reinstalling. I have just completed the Windows XP install , which is professional service pack 3. I have also installed an AV package.   Now it is time to install the audio and display drivers. Windows Update does not detect the Display card, and neither the audio device.   I really have no idea what devices are present in this system, and I am thinking of opening the case, and reading some IDs from the cards themselves. Before I do this, is there not some kind of tool that can automatically detect hardware and install drivers automatically. If not then at least tell me what devices are present, with some real descriptions, so I can search for drivers.
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I was wondering how to list all the hardware info in my computer?   Both terminal and GUI solutions please. Is there a single utility to monitor most hardware's working status? Just like some software in Windows?   Thanks and regards!
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I want to disable Bluetooth on my laptop running Windows 10 Pro x64, but I have a problem: the option to do so is missing even though I know that it was previously available.  Here is the Bluetooth settings pages should look like on Windows 10:    Here is how it looks for me:    As you can see, I am missing the switch to turn it on or off? Why is it missing? I know that just yesterday, it was available and I turned it off. What can I do to fix it?
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Is DDR3L RAM and DDR3 RAM compatible?  I have a Notebook that I want to upgrade, Toshiba Satellite C55-B5212KL and () where they clearly state that the RAM is a DDR3L.  Now my question comes from the fact that I have dual OS (Windows 8.1 and Linux Mint 17.3) and the outcomes after using an app on Windows and running two commands in Linux are like this:  Outcome of memory under Windows 8.1    Outcome of SPD under Windows 8.1    Linux: sudo lshw    Linux: sudo dmidecode --type 17    On Linux the results are straightforward and they don’t show that my laptop has a DDR3L memory, they say it has a DDR3 @1333 MHz. On the other hand the app in Windos 8.1 also shows a RAM DDR3 but @666 MHz which is confusing for me since I don’t know so much about hardware.  So again, whom should I trust for upgrading my laptop and making the right purchase, my output from two different OS or the manufacturer specs?
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Is there some way to boot a Linux system from a VHD in Windows 7?  If there is a way, how do I put it there in the first place?  EDIT: To clarify, I'm not trying to run Linux in a VM. I'm trying to boot it in my physical machine, from a VHD, as I can do with Windows 7.
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I need to encode information about either version or configuration on the board/electrically, so the firmware can detect which board layout is used.  What options are possible and what are their pro/cons?
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I use a ASUS N550JV laptop with Ubuntu 14.04 and Windows 8 dual boot. The Bluetooth module is atheros ar3012. Since the day Ubuntu is installed, the behavior of Bluetooth and speaker is weird. They are not totally dead. They sometimes work, but I find no pattern about when they  work and when they don't. Sometimes Bluetooth works right after start up. In other time, the Bluetooth icon does not show up in menu bar (I have "Show Bluetooth status shown in menu bar" checked in settings). When I enter settings, Bluetooth is shown to be off. Even though I can set it to On by clicking it, the device menu below still shows "Bluetooth is disabled" and I cannot search and add device (I use a Bluetooth mouse). Also, if I close the settings and open it again, Bluetooth will be set to off again. The same is with the speaker. Sometimes it works right after startup but sometimes it just refuse to work. I am so confused. Could anyone  tell me how to solve this problem? Thanks in advance.  P.S. Every time I start up, at the page where I enter my password to log in, it always pops up a window titled "Authentication required by Wi-Fi network" and asks me for wifi password. But even if I type in the password, the connect button is still grayed out. Does this has anything to do with the problems above?  Edit: I checked /var/log/dmesg and the error about bluetooth is as follow:     [    5.032070] Bluetooth: Error in firmware loading err = -110,len = 448, size = 1184   [    5.032126] Bluetooth: Loading sysconfig file failed   [    5.032166] ath3k: probe of 3-5:1.0 failed with error -110
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I have five USB cameras, same brand, same model (Canyon CNR-FWC120H). They are used to monitor different scenes 24/7. I need to somehow identify which camera is which from the Linux (Debian) console or programmatically (any language).      I’ve tried looking at the output of lsusb -vvv, there is a field iSerial which should be different for each camera but unfortunately this manufacturer decided not to bother and all cameras have the same serial at that place: 200901010001  Is there any other way I could identify which camera is which independently of USB ports to which they are connected because unfortunately in my specific scenario I can not rely on the fact that the same camera will always be connected to the same port.  UPDATE After some discussion in the comments I realize this is mission impossible. So forget the last paragraph or if you do have some ingenious idea, please, you are welcome to present it. I’m now interested if I could identify which USB port the device is connected to; I use the built-in USB ports on the motherboard and additional PCI USB controller cards to accommodate the cameras with enough bandwidth. I would need to uniquely identify the port, and the port number/identification should not change if for example the machine reboots and for some reason the USB controllers get initialized in different order. Is that possible?  UPDATE 2 I see in my logs for one of the cameras the following info:  [Wed Apr 30 18:35:02 2014] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device FULL HD 1080P Webcam (0bda:58b0) [Wed Apr 30 18:35:02 2014] input: FULL HD 1080P Webcam as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/input/input4   Using that, I’ve called this command:  udevadm info --query=all --path=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/input/input4   And got this:  P: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/input/input4 E: DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/input/input4 E: EV=3 E: ID_BUS=usb E: ID_INPUT=1 E: ID_INPUT_KEY=1 E: ID_MODEL=FULL_HD_1080P_Webcam E: ID_MODEL_ENC=FULL\x20HD\x201080P\x20Webcam E: ID_MODEL_ID=58b0 E: ID_PATH=pci-0000:01:00.0-usb-0:2:1.0 E: ID_PATH_TAG=pci-0000_01_00_0-usb-0_2_1_0 E: ID_REVISION=5801 E: ID_SERIAL=Generic_FULL_HD_1080P_Webcam_200901010001 E: ID_SERIAL_SHORT=200901010001 E: ID_TYPE=video E: ID_USB_DRIVER=uvcvideo E: ID_USB_INTERFACES=:0e0100:0e0200:010100:010200: E: ID_USB_INTERFACE_NUM=00 E: ID_VENDOR=Generic E: ID_VENDOR_ENC=Generic E: ID_VENDOR_ID=0bda E: KEY=100000 0 0 0 E: MODALIAS=input:b0003v0BDAp58B0e5801-e0,1,kD4,ramlsfw E: NAME="FULL HD 1080P Webcam" E: PHYS="usb-0000:01:00.0-2/button" E: PRODUCT=3/bda/58b0/5801 E: PROP=0 E: SUBSYSTEM=input E: UDEV_LOG=3 E: USEC_INITIALIZED=41090223   The things that differ between the cameras are DEVPATH, ID_PATH, ID_PATH_TAG, PHYS and (most interesting) USEC_INITIALIZED. Now the first four elements are probably related to the USB port, but the last one USEC_INITIALIZED looks like some sort of serial number. I can’t find any info about what it actually represents. Does anyone know anything about it? I thought that it is maybe the time in micro seconds when the camera initialized but the camera that initialized after this one has USEC_INITIALIZED=17919751, and then the one after that USEC_INITIALIZED=25609278 so it seems rather random. I’ll try to reboot the system and see, but I need to wait for a convenient time to do that.   And if anyone is wondering why I don’t just try reconnecting a camera and see if that remains the same. The answer is that I’m operating this PC remotely, and I’m investigating all this to prepare the system to be fully autonomous for any potential event in the future. Which for example might include disconnecting the cameras from USB ports.
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I have a Lenovo G580 laptop. In the past, using Windows 8, I could use Bluetooth to connect to other devices.  Installing Windows&nbsp;10, Bluetooth simply disappeared. I can't find anything related to Bluetooth in the Device Manager, also in Settings → Devices.  There is no Windows&nbsp;10 Bluetooth driver for my laptop.  What can I do?
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So I'm trying to get my laptops NVIDIA fx 880m to pass to a virtual box running window seven on a linux mint 17 install.  So far everything seems to be (maybe) heading in the right direction:  the device passed through happily, when I booted the virtual box it installed a bunch of new drivers, but when I try to install the NVIDIA driver on the guest it can't find the card. I looked under the device manager and there's no listing for the nvidia card under the pci bus, my guess would be that I need to disable it in the host so that it can be passed through to the guest (the virtual box manual said they can't be shared) but I'm not sure how to do so. Can anybody help with this? This question does not seem to me to be a duplicate of , because here the given solution was that it was not possible with a windows host, however in this case the host is linux
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On Linux, given:    a device, for example /dev/sda,  and its major and minor numbers, for example 8, 0,    how can I know which module / driver is "driving" it?  Can I dig into /sys or /proc to discover that?
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I lost my USB bluetooth dongle (from HP) which I used for a wireless keyboard and mouse. They came together in a set when I bought my last HP computer.  Are the keyboard and mouse useless now? or will any bluetooth dongle allow them to work? If I can just buy a new one - any recommendations on a replacement (good price, and perhaps works with Windows and Ubuntu out-of-the-box?   Forgive me if this is an easy question. I'm just not that familiar with wireless mice/keyboards.
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My wifi card is an Intel® Wireless-AX200 (802.11/a/b/g/n/ac/ax), Bluetooth® 5, and bluetooth is working. I've tried following various guides, however these drivers are apparently yet to make it into the kernel.  Their product brief states linux is supported:    And yet their driver page has no listing for them:    sudo lshw -c network =&gt; mark@m-blade-2019:~$ sudo lshw -c network   *-network UNCLAIMED               description: Network controller        product: Intel Corporation        vendor: Intel Corporation        physical id: 0        bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0        version: 1a        width: 64 bits        clock: 33MHz        capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix cap_list        configuration: latency=0        resources: memory:cf300000-cf303fff   *-network        description: Ethernet interface        physical id: 2        logical name: enx0050b6b47e72        serial: 00:50:b6:b4:7e:72        capabilities: ethernet physical        configuration: broadcast=yes driver=cdc_ncm driverversion=22-Aug-2005 firmware=CDC NCM ip=192.168.1.17 link=yes multicast=yes   I'm running kernel version Linux 5.0.0-13-generic, any help is greatly appreciated.  EDIT: results of lspci -nnk | grep 00280 -A3:  mark@m-blade-2019:~$ lspci -nnk | grep 0280 -A3 02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2723] (rev 1a)     Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:0084]     Kernel modules: wl, iwlwifi 03:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller [0108]: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd NVMe SSD Controller SM981/PM981 [144d:a808] mark@m-blade-2019:~$
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I cannot remove any bluetooth devices from my computer. I tried so many ways. Removing it from device manager, control panel, settings, bluetooth. None work. Why this is a problem? Say I change bluetooth adapter. I can't add the device because the device is still there. I can't connect either because it's not paired correctly with the new adapter. I tried unhide devices remove them. Shows up again in device manager. There are solutions that some programs do some long time ago. The program no longer exist. This is a bug that happens in many windows 10. What should I do? I just want my computer to &quot;forget&quot; all bluetooth device and start a new Where are all those Bluetooth device stored? I can delete them all. Someone told me to paste something in powershell. Something like Keith Miller's answer. This is the result. not only device I really want to remove is not listed, I cannot remove any devices at all      Select a device to remove (0 to Exit): 17     Removing device: Mi Phone mimax 3     Sorry, an error occured.          ******** Bluetooth Devices ********              1 - Generic Attribute Profile         2 - Bluetooth LE Generic Attribute Service         3 - Galaxy A70         4 - Device Information Service         5 - 小米蓝牙手柄         6 - Bluetooth LE Generic Attribute Service         7 - Generic Attribute Profile         8 - Bluetooth LE Generic Attribute Service         9 - Generic Access Profile        10 - Lenovo A6000        11 - Bluetooth LE Generic Attribute Service        12 - MX Master        13 - Generic Attribute Profile        14 - Device Information Service        15 - Device Information Service        16 - BT-163        17 - SMI-M1        18 - Bluetooth LE Generic Attribute Service        19 - Bluetooth LE Generic Attribute Service        20 - Avantree Saturn Pro        21 - Generic Access Profile        22 - Bluetooth LE Generic Attribute Service        23 - MX Master        24 - Generic Access Profile        25 - Bluetooth LE Generic Attribute Service          Select a device to remove (0 to Exit): 24     Removing device: Generic Access Profile     Sorry, an error occured.       I am looking for a more lower level solution. Things like getting rid some registry entry or some directory. Where do all info about these devices stored? I want to just delete them
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I got me a nice new laptop and I want to know a bit more about the hardware.  How can I see how many CPUs my computer has in Windows&nbsp;7?  (Note: Clicking on Start → right clicking on Computer → selecting properties shows me the processor type, but it does not say anything about the core count.)
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I'm in the process of installing Windows 7 64-bit. I use a raid card, Promise tx4300. I have the latest 32-bit &amp; 64-bit drivers for it.  During setup, I need to load drivers so that setup can see the Raid array. I find the 64-bit drivers on my USB drive. Setup finds and recognizes the drivers but then complain that Windows cannot use these drivers because they are unsigned and can cause problems with Windows... So it won't find my raid array.  I try repeating the process and this time choosing the 32-bit drivers. Setup accepts these and it shows my the raid array and I can continue with the setup.  I have a couple questions:   How can I make Windows 7 64-bit Setup accept and use unsigned raid drivers? Is it possible to alter or forge the drivers to make Windows think they are signed? If I use the 32-bit drivers during the 64-bit setup, will this cause problems?   UPDATE This issue ended up being something to do with the Windows 7 installation disc I was using. The disc included both Windows 7 32 and 64 bit versions on it. After borrowing a friend's disc that included only Windows 7 64-bit, the drivers were properly recognized and everything worked fine.
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The path to previous driver is usually /lib/modules/&lt;kernel-version&gt;/kernel/net/wireless  I need this info so I can finish updating my STA Broadcom wireless. However, I'm a noob at Ubuntu and I'm not sure how to find the kernel version or kernel. I checked /lib/modules/ and found this: 2.6.27-10-generic  2.6.32-30-generic  2.6.32-34-generic  2.6.32-38-generic 2.6.27-7-generic   2.6.32-31-generic  2.6.32-35-generic  3.2.0-54-generic 2.6.28-19-generic  2.6.32-32-generic  2.6.32-36-generic  3.2.0-54-generic-pae 2.6.31-23-generic  2.6.32-33-generic  2.6.32-37-generic  Which one is the running kernel? Another question. Is there a snippet so I don't have to cut and paste? Thanks for your time! :)