Daily Archives: 2017-08-10


Instructions for installing the cp210x serial bridge driver

This USB driver is not in the kernel by default and have to be installed specifically for your kernel version: Source link is: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/75558/ubuntu-make-fails-with-no-such-file-or-directory-lib-modules-3-4-0-build Building cp210x for your kernel version First make note of your major & minor numbers for your kernel you have (i.e. 3.4, 3.5, etc.). $ uname […]


Filesystem Check

Basic filesystem checks are performed by: fsck /dev/sda1 I struggled with Stale NFS file handles on critical /etc/fstab and had to unmount the root partition force a filesystem check with: umount /dev/sda1 fsck /dev/sda1 -f It appeared not to fix it first but after reboot, it looked good.