On Wed, October 21, 2009 12:34 pm, Saifi Khan wrote: > Hi: > > Here is a situation that i'm facing on a Compaq C301TU laptop. > > The NIC card (Realtek) does not work due to driver issue. > The WLAN card (Broadcom) does not work due to driver issue. > > Currently, i review the possible patch visually on an identical > laptop (running FreeBSD-8) and then type out the code on the > other laptop in sys/dev/netif/rl/if_rl.c file. > > Is there a better way to apply patches on a system that doesnot > have functional network devices ?
If you have a USB memory stick, that would at least save you the retyping.
