Re: (u)ral driver

2006-03-19 Thread Chris Rawnsley
Thank you for your help Sascha. I'll try and give it a go when I have some free time. Then, hopefully, I can report back success. :) Chris

Re: "UNIX"

2006-02-26 Thread Chris Rawnsley
Well I've managed to dig up something. "Coined in 1969 to describe a specific computer operating system, the term "Unix" now covers a whole host of variations, including Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. The name was intended as a pun on an earlier system called "Multics" (Multiplexed Information and C

Re: "UNIX"

2006-02-23 Thread Chris Rawnsley
Very interesting. Well now that I know I will try and be a little more careful in how I refer to it. If it is all capitalised that would lead me to believe that it stood for something, but I can't find anything on the matter. Do you know why it is capialised and/or do you know the reason they chose

Re: (u)ral driver

2006-02-23 Thread Chris Rawnsley
Thank you for your replies :) I have tried your suggestions and to some degree things look promising. Let me just outline what I've done so possible mistakes can be spotted. Firstly, I grabbed myself a copy of the DFBSD source using cvsup. I copied an example file for cvsup to another directory whe

Re: (u)ral driver

2006-02-15 Thread Chris Rawnsley
It didn't fully send the first time, I am assuming its because of the three dots as that's where it got cut off, but I have no idea. Thanks for your reply. I hope you don't mind me just checking a few th

Re: (u)ral driver

2006-02-15 Thread Chris Rawnsley
Thanks for your reply. I hope you don't mind me just checking a few things... >From the links you've shown me, I am assuming that I should: Get FreeBSD source (or specifically the ral driver). Apply the diff file. Compile the driver. If that's correct, should "make install" work, or do I need to

(u)ral driver

2006-02-15 Thread Chris Rawnsley
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