driver patch file installation

[Mark Hounschell]

Neil Phipps wrote:
> 
> I had a similar problem at first ... the files are gz files and you need
> to load them as gz and then zcat -d them (at least thats what I do) ...
> then cd to /usr/src/linux and then run the patch from there ... more or
> less ... Doug has some instructions on his page as well ...
> 
> regards,
> 
> Neil
> 
> Mark Hounschell wrote:
> >
> > I've got patch files to go from 5.1.25 to 5.1.31 from
> > http://people.redhat.com/dledford/. I can't seem to get
> > them installed.
> >
> > I copy them to /usr/src/linux/
> > I cd to /usr/src/linux
> > I execute the patch command "patch --dry-run -p1 <aic7xxx-5.1.26.patch"
> > I get:
> >
> > patch unexpectedly ends in middle of line
> > patch: **** Only garbage was found in the patch input.
> >
> > Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong.
> > http://people.redhat.com/dledford/ 
> > --
> > Mark Hounschell
> > markh at compro.net
> >
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> --
> Neil Phipps
> Silicon Graphics.
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You say I need to load them as gz? Using netscape I just click on say
aic7xxx-5.1.26.patch and it saves it to disk. If I then do a "zcat -d 
aic7xxx-5.1.26.patch" on it I get a bunch of what looks like garbage
ont he screen and then:

zcat: aic7xxx-5.1.26.patch: invalid compressed data--crc error

Is is possible that netscpae isn't downloading the file correctly?
I've never had any problems downloading anything that way. Compressed
tar files, RPM's, whatever, never had a problem.

I've tried everything DLedford suggests on his site to no avail.

-- 
Mark Hounschell
markh at compro.net


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