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Topic: how to install a driver

I have a drawing tablet, and this guy said it will work with this driver http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-bug … /0010.html but I dont know how to use this page to install it, as in is this the src code and ...yea how do I do this

On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 12:22:17PM -0500, Haroon Khalid wrote:
> This drivers isnt in pkgsrc correct? I tried locate and got this:

It isn't in pkgsrc... the source code is only available as this patch:
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-bug … /0010.html

For example, Linux had at least two completely independent USB stacks before Linus Torvalds rejected them both and wrote a third one from scratch, after he found both existent Linux  stacks unsatisfactory.  (When pressed for an explanation as to why he selected the API he did, Torvalds stated: "because I wanted to."

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Re: how to install a driver

google and check mailing lists for how to apply a patch with diff

then re-build/install all your sources

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Re: how to install a driver

lucas wrote:

google and check mailing lists for how to apply a patch with diff

Or, you could use the diff RTFM howto several of us wrote here in these very forums wink

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Re: how to install a driver

even better.

either way, do your own homework :X

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Re: how to install a driver

lucas wrote:

even better.

either way, do your own homework :X

stfu

For example, Linux had at least two completely independent USB stacks before Linus Torvalds rejected them both and wrote a third one from scratch, after he found both existent Linux  stacks unsatisfactory.  (When pressed for an explanation as to why he selected the API he did, Torvalds stated: "because I wanted to."

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