Re: (u)ral driver

[Erik Wikström <erik-wikstrom@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2006-02-15 21:44, Chris Rawnsley wrote:
> Hello,
> I am fairly new to DragonFlyBSD and Unix's (or is it better to say
> "*nix's"? :O Trademark issues!!) in general. I have fiddled around
> with Gentoo, Ubuntu, FreeBSD and now DragonFly BSD. Now I know that I
> am probably perhaps sticking myself in the deep end, but so far I am
> impressed with the BSDs more than GNU/Linux as everything seems more
> solid. More impressed with DragonFly over FreeBSD as it seems to be
> moving forward rather than clinging to the past.
>
> Anyway, babbling over!
>
> I have a D-Link DWL-G122 with a Ralink rt2500 chipset. Under FreeBSD,
> I got this working using the ral(4) driver. I have looked for
> information on how I might get this working in DragonFly and I found
> this: http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2005-10/msg00063.html
> Unfortuantly, with my lack of experience, I wasn't quite sure what a
> diff file does. I tried to find out a bit and I understand that you
> use the "patch" command to apply it to sources. Next problem; what
> sources? I've looked inside the diff file and seen a few references
> but I am not sure exactly what I want.

From looking at the patch it seems that the /usr/src/sys directory is 
the right one (but I'm not to good with patches). So what to do would be 
to get the sources if you haven't done so already (use cvsup and the 
appropriate file in /usr/share/examples/cvsup) and then to un-compress 
the patch somewhere (/tmp). Then go to the /usr/src/sys and type

patch < /tmp/ral.diff

and hope that the patch applies cleanly. If it doesn't it means that the 
source has changed too much since the patch was made. It might still be 
possible to fix those parts of the patch that didn't apply by manually 
editing the source if the differance isn't to big (or you know what you 
are doing).

Erik Wikström
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