Programming :: Create A Device Driver For User Applications?
Feb 7, 2010
I have a user Application for transferring the data from one PC to the other PC using Ethernet Port, can we create a device driver for that ?? that means it should act like a virtual device, if we write data into /dev/some file, it should go the other PC
I did searched you tube but my results were not great.I have 2 books on KernelProgramming.I feel I need if some where I can get a video tutorial which can help me to understand how to develop a Linux Device driver that will be great.I had a look at Greg Kroah Hartmans video lecture of developing patches on ......I have been reading books and a lot of stuff.So I wish if I could get a video lecture that would be better
I need to know whether it is possible to insert or install a device driver without root permissions? or can we instal a device driver as a normal user?
I want to try to create my own virtual device in Linux. Something simple, for example, a /dev/fortune virtual device that returns a line from fortune() each time you read from it.
I am willing to do my own research and study, I just need to know where to start. E.g., what to read or what to google, in order to get me where I want to go the fastest. I have some C/C++ and Ruby background.
Of course, it's Windows only, and XP only at that. However, the data that needs transferred between the device and the computer should be fairly basic, unless it offloads a lot of processing to the computer. I'm not a programmer, nor do I play one on TV, but I have written some fairly complicated microcontroller programs and some basic Java GUIs. Besides writing the actual code, how hard is it to do whatever needs done to make a Linux device driver, apart from the code to make the device work?
I've a problem with character device mounting. I've a character device module code. Here is the code
Code: /* chardev.c: Creates a read-only char device that says how many times * you've read from the dev file */ #if defined(CONFIG_MODVERSIONS) && ! defined(MODVERSIONS) #include <linux/modversions.h> #define MODVERSIONS
I wrote a small hello world type of character device driver. When I type echo -n "abcdef" > /dev/bond and do a cat /dev/bond then only last "f" of above input abcdef is displayed rest nothing is displayed. I asked this question earlier and some people suggested me some modifications I have done and experimented all that but I am unable to catch the error.
Here is the code
Code: /* Necessary includes for device drivers */ #include <linux/init.h> //#include <linux/config.h> #include <linux/module.h>
How can I create virtual driver for parport?My notebook doesn't have LPT and I would like to write virtual driver for LPT (USB to LPT).I wrote driver for USB to microcontroller.I don't know how can I register "static const struct parport_operations" or function like this?static void write_parport(/*data*/){/* send data to USB */
is there a way to save/create a file with fopen so the file is in the user home directory.Normally I'd do fopen("/home/me/myfile.... but me might change from one user to another. So can I so some sort of switch so it saves to whoever is using.
How do I create a user account in a shell script? I know this may sound n00bish to you, but I know it's more than just mkdir-ing the home directory and subdirectories.
i am trying learn to program linux kernel modules and smoothly transition in device driver programming. I have a year and a half worth of programming in C and have been using linux for years!! But my question is how do i compile a module? I got as far as coding it but am stuck as of now.
I am writing a ping kind of program for my own application. This application needs to run with non root user privileges. This needs me to create a raw socket. But the ping connection is failing because of creating raw socket with non root user.How can I run the application successfully with non root user privileges using raw socket creation?
I'm trying to write a script that will prompt the user for a username/password, then create that user/password in the right groups on all my machines. I know this is kind of a long way around to avoid a NIS server, but I like making my life more difficult.
This is what I have so far:
Code:
the script has 2 problems: The "if" functions return an error and do not compare the strings successfully. whatever password is entered does get applied properly and the user is unable to login
I need to be able to store users logged at chat server. The chat program stores the login information in a text file (no db). I need a modification so the user info is read from the flat file and stores into a table in Joomla db. I don't have access to source for making the Java Chat Server store the data directly to joomla db is not possible.Any pointer will be appreciated.Below if the code that read s the information from Java Chat Server.
Code: function chat_getChattersFromLocalServer() {
I am working with ubuntu (linux) and have to create a graphical user interface. The GUI is a 2-D plot that have to plot a point. The point ( x and y co-ordinates) are not hardcoded, and are coming from another file (another piece of code written in c / python). I was thinking to use Glade with c/python to create this. But, I am not sure how to start with this.
I am looking for a way to issue ioctls to a usb driver from user space. Upon googling, I found that usbfs provides a way to do that, anyhow I can't find sample code to try that out.
Note: I have written a sample usb driver on the lines of 'Linux device drivers' book. Now I need to try ioctls with usb drivers.
basically i have to create a simple program with will continually read input from the user until they enter a blank linei know how to read in certain input but not sure how to get it continually in a loop
I am currently using fedora 11 kernel 2.6.29 version, i wanted to write device driver for usb to detect my own device. My project is radio with computer. My fm radio get connected to usb port so i need to write h/w interfacing program.
The error "USB device 6 (vend/prod 0x603/0xf2) is not claimed by any active driver." is in dmesg every time I connect my Logitech keyboard to my system. I also tried (all with the same error): - Memory stick - DVD-burner - Compaq mouse
I have installed live cd on usb pendrive. Everything works great. How can I find out which device driver it is using? Where are the device driver files stored? How do you specify the device driver when mounting a device?
I have Centos5.4 loaded on a late 2008 MACBOOK Pro and would like to get wireless working. I've attempted to download the broadcom driver and create a driver module with no luck.
I wanted to create an user but don't allow it to see the other user's home folder so I made chmod 0750 /home/folder and it worked fine so I went ahead and decided to completely forbid access to the root folder and I had the "great" idea to make chmod 0750 /, and now I'm having problems with wine and other applications, in example I used to have a folder in this address 209.239.114.51/mmgr but now it's giving me errors and if I try to run some applications I got error "There was an error creating the child process for this terminal"
I want to add 50 new users, not on the server yet I want to add them all to group Accounting - with 1 option, not user by user I want to setup a default password for them all, and have it say something like 'You must now change password or no access will be permitted' Any other options I also want to do once, not for each user?