rtl8192cu driver for CentOS 7

I find the rtl8192cu wireless adapter driver on CentOS 7 is quite unstable. After running a while, the connection will disappear. How to make it stable? There is a bug in some hardware where the device never wakes back up. You may try disabling the power management by putting a file 8192cu-disable-power-management.conf under /etc/modprobe.d/: #…

How to install aclocal on Fedora Linux?

I tried to build a project while it reports: # ./autogen.sh Can’t exec “aclocal”: No such file or directory at /usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm line 326. autoreconf: failed to run aclocal: No such file or directory How should I handle this? How to install aclocal? yum install aclocal shows: No package aclocal available. Error: Unable to find a…

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Allowing root Access to NFS Directories

For local filesystems, root usually has full access (read/write) to directories/files inside of it. But for NFS directory mounted from network, root usually has no permission to write to directories or files within the NFS directory. How to make root act similarly in an NFS directory to the behavior in local directories? The reason that…

How to install PARSEC correctly.

PARSEC is the most important CPU-bound benchmark for systems. It is huge and hard to install because it needs lots of 3-part libs. PARSEC download link for 3.0 version: http://parsec.cs.princeton.edu/download.htm#parsec I remembered I added the answer yesterday night but I could not see the answer currently. Anyway, let me add the answer again after I…

Why I got message “invalid syntax, continuing…” when I execute “sysctl”?

When I tried to apply new configuration in /etc/sysctl.conf, I got following message. warning: /etc/sysctl.conf(44): invalid syntax, continuing… Sounds like your changed /etc/sysctl.conf has problem. You may post the content of your /etc/sysctl.conf here to let other have a check. net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0 net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1 net.ipv4.conf.default.accept_source_route = 0 kernel.sysrq = 0 kernel.core_uses_pid = 1…

How to install glibc, glibc-common and GD libraries independently?

I already have PHP and nginx installed and running on my on centOS 6.7. Please guide me, how can install glibc, glibc-common and GD libraries independently on my centOS 6.7 without crashing my system? I am not sure how you installed PHP and nginx. If they are installed from CentOS6.7’s Yum repository, you may install…

How to convert the dmesg timestamps to easier to read format on Linux?

The dmesg results from newer Linux kernels show the timestamps. It seems the time in seconds since the kernel start time. How to convert the dmesg timestamps to the real time on Linux? The dmesg timestamp is the time in seconds since the kernel starting time. Later dmesg has an -T option: -T, –ctime Print…

How to get the full path and directory of a Makefile itself?

How to get the full path and directory of a Makefile itself like finding Bash script’s own path? This 2 lines in Makefile get the full path and dir of the Makefile itself: mkfile_path := $(abspath $(lastword $(MAKEFILE_LIST))) mkfile_dir := $(dir $(mkfile_path)) The piece of code gets you Makefile, finds its absolute path and the…