Comments on: LAAAAAAyou know the drill.

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:26:20 +0000

I am running Ubuntu 8.04 and I did this to apply the patch:

tar -xzf rtl8187b-modified-dist.tar.gz
then:
mv 2.6.24.patch rtl8187b-modified/
cd rtl8187b-modified
patch -p1 <2.6.24.patch

I got this output: patch: command not found

What am I doing wrong? Patch is not on system it seems. Is there another way to apply the patch?

Thx -Ian

By: Ante Wessels

Ante Wessels — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:07:56 +0000

Thanks! I had tried that too, but didn’t know the -p1 stuff.

By: Pawel

Pawel — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:37:28 +0000

you need to unpack the driver first:
tar -xzf rtl8187b-modified-dist.tar.gz
then:
mv 2.6.24.patch rtl8187b-modified/
cd rtl8187b-modified
patch -p1 <2.6.24.patch

By: Ante Wessels

Ante Wessels — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:48:12 +0000

I get 3 hunks failed when I try to apply the patch with

patch rtl8187b-modified-dist.tar.gz 2.6.24.patch

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks!

(with ubuntu 7.10 the modified driver really helped me)

By: val-gaav

val-gaav — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:37:48 +0000

that’s really a good news :) The only thing I don’t like about my toshiba is rs690 (radeon 1200) and the rtl8197 (8187b)… support for both under linux is lacking ;/

-rs690 drm support got into kernel, meaning that soon it may work out of the box for linux distros and without the need for fglrx blob …

- and know it’s good to know that rtl8187b may also soon work out of the box … maybe even with kernel 2.6.26 … who knows ? :P