From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Apr 29 13:52:16 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E8AC158E4F6 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 2019 13:52:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: from smh-06.1blu.de (smh-06.1blu.de [178.254.0.206]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 173AE814C6 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 2019 13:52:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: from [172.16.29.5] (helo=sh4-5.1blu.de) by smh-06.1blu.de with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hL6hP-0008TX-Ky; Mon, 29 Apr 2019 15:52:03 +0200 Received: from ftp51246-2575596 by sh4-5.1blu.de with local (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hL6hP-0007uz-Il; Mon, 29 Apr 2019 15:52:03 +0200 Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 15:52:03 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz To: "Kevin P. Neal" Cc: Graham Perrin , FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: testing wifi dongle for freebsd support! Message-ID: <20190429135203.GA29072@sh4-5.1blu.de> Reply-To: Matthias Apitz Mail-Followup-To: "Kevin P. Neal" , Graham Perrin , FreeBSD questions References: <201904280357.x3S3vNr7000881@sdf.org> <20190428151700.GA5003@c720-r342378> <20190429132831.GA47552@neutralgood.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20190429132831.GA47552@neutralgood.org> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT r314251 (amd64) X-message-flag: Mails containing HTML will not be read! Please send only plain text. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 173AE814C6 X-Spamd-Bar: --- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-3.30 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; HAS_REPLYTO(0.00)[guru@unixarea.de]; REPLYTO_EQ_FROM(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-0.999,0]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[unixarea.de]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; TO_DN_ALL(0.00)[]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[cached: mail.unixarea.de]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.89)[-0.891,0]; SUBJECT_ENDS_EXCLAIM(0.00)[]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:42730, ipnet:178.254.0.0/19, country:DE]; FREEMAIL_CC(0.00)[gmail.com]; IP_SCORE(-1.30)[ipnet: 178.254.0.0/19(-3.62), asn: 42730(-2.87), country: DE(-0.01)] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 13:52:16 -0000 El día Monday, April 29, 2019 a las 09:28:31AM -0400, Kevin P. Neal escribió: > On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 05:17:00PM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > > On 28/04/2019 04:57, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > > … intend to visit the vendor's shop, boot one of his demo amd64 systems off a freebsd-12 disk and test … > > > > > > > You can relatively easy produce an USB stick with the FreeBSD version > > you like. The steps are: > > Wouldn't it be easier to just dd the "memstick.img" file from the 12.0 > release to a USB stick? > > That wouldn't pick up any changes made since the release, but it may be > good enough? That would be easy as a first step. But, when it comes to make small changes in src to get a vendorID or deviceID recogniced by the driver .... matthias -- Matthias Apitz, ✉ guru@unixarea.de, http://www.unixarea.de/ +49-176-38902045 Public GnuPG key: http://www.unixarea.de/key.pub 70 years of NATO - 70 years of wars (Jugoslavia, Afghanistan, Syria, ...) and 70 years of war preparation against Russia. -- PEACE instead of NATO !