Devices not being built
Nathan Kinkade
nkinkade at ub.edu.bz
Wed Jul 7 08:48:05 PDT 2004
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 05:44:02AM +0000, mikejs at mbay.net wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've built a FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #5 kernel. I have a linksys WMP 11 wireless
> card.
> I've configured and built the kernel with the followings devices
> device wlan # 802.11 support
> device an # Aironet 4500/4800 802.11 wireless NICs.
> device awi # BayStack 660 and others
> device wi # WaveLAN/Intersil/Symbol 802.11 wireless NICs.
>
> The problem is that no devices are being built in /dev for the above. What am I
> doing wrong?
>
> Thanks
>
> Mike
> Sacauskis
5.2.1 uses devfs by default. A device won't get created in the devfs
filesystem unless a driver registers it. Do you actually have devices
physically installed in the machine that are supported by each of those
drivers?
Nathan
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