Patches on CentOS

Nefarious · 9 Sep 2009 at 06:03

I'm trying to get the onboard NIC working on my desktop but the drivers aren't part of CentOS 5.2. There are patches available but I was wondering what the hell I actually do with a patch. Most sources seem to say that I have to download the kernel again and apply the patch to that, others suggest that I simply need to run patch p1 > /your/patch.patch but this simply leaves me with a blinking cursor on the next line that seems to me to be reminiscent of telling a cat to sit, roll over and then play dead.....

Any advice and or constructive abusive would be helpful

.walls · 9 Sep 2009 at 09:52

Code:

# cd /usr/src
# patch -p1 < /path/to/patch

Stick that into the source before make, but after make mrproper

Nefarious · 9 Sep 2009 at 10:17

As I wrote, I tried exactly that (but omited the - when posting) and got nowhere

.walls · 9 Sep 2009 at 12:49

ok - try it another way...

Code:

# cat /path/to/unzipped/patch | patch -1

Which reads the patch file and pipes it into patch.