device "urtw" is unknown

[Mel Flynn]

On Thursday 16 July 2009 08:38:37 Rob Farmer wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 08:22, Paul B. Mahol<onemda at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 7/16/09, Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.current at mailing.thruhere.net> wrote:
> >> [Redirecting to -current]
> >>
> >> On Wednesday 15 July 2009 22:30:05 Rob Farmer wrote:
> >>> I am trying to build a custom kernel with the urtw device on 8.0 beta
> >>> 1 amd64. According to the man page, I should add device urtw to my
> >>> config (just Generic plus this) and it should work. But, I get:
> >>>
> >>> config: Error: device "urtw" is unknown
> >>
> >> Can reproduce. It is built as module though, so you can kldload if_urtw.
> >> Perhaps the ${_urtw} magic in sys/modules/usb/Makefile is not understood
> >> by config(8).
> >
> > Negative, urtw is not mentioned in /sys/conf/files*
> >
> > --
> > Paul
>
> Ok , so I added it to /sys/conf/files and it seems to compile and run
> fine. Is this correct or is there more to it?

It is correct for your machine. Unless there's a technical reason this module 
wasn't added to sys/conf/files*, rather then an oversight.
The correct fix for the official FreeBSD source tree would be a bit more 
involved as the driver (or device) only supports i386 and amd64.
-- 
Mel