PHY Driver as module

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Mon Aug 14 14:16:58 UTC 2006


On Monday 14 August 2006 06:29, Alok Barsode wrote:
> Hi,
> I am a newbie to FreeBSD kernel development.
> I am using FreeBSD 4.10.
> I was trying to build a PHY driver as module
> (/dev/mii/nsgphy.c) but i am unable to do so.
> I modified the Makefile in /sys/modules/mii as follows
> 
> # $FreeBSD: src/sys/modules/mii/Makefile,v 1.11.2.8
> 2003/10/29 17:06:48 wpaul Exp $
> 
> .PATH:	${.CURDIR}/../../dev/mii
> KMOD	= nsgphy
> SRCS	= mii.c mii_physubr.c miibus_if.h device_if.h
> miibus_if.c
> SRCS	+= bus_if.h pci_if.h nsgphy.c 
> 
> .include <bsd.kmod.mk>
> 
> It generated a nsgphy.ko and a mii.ko 
> I am unable to load the nsgphy.ko , it says "No such
> file or directory".
> When i try to insert mii.ko it says file exists.
> Am i missing something?

Look in your dmesg for the real error messages.

-- 
John Baldwin


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