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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Nathan Butcher <n-butcher@fusiongol.com> writes:
>> * if_ral - I've noticed instability in the driver since mid last year. I
>> have a USB wireless dongle that uses the driver, and I have noticed just
>> like all the other users who have mentioned it - that it occasionally
>> "cuts out".
> 
> Umm, aren't you confusing ral(4) with ural(4)?  The former is only used
> for PCI (and possibly CardBus) adapters while the latter is only used
> for USB adapters.  They are *very* different beasts.
> 
> DES

I'm probably confusing them then. Having said that, my adapter appears 
as ural0, and seems to be having the same kind of issues that others 
have been reporting with the PCI ral driver.