can't load smbfs kernel module

Anton Shterenlikht mexas at bristol.ac.uk
Mon Jan 25 14:24:35 UTC 2010


This is on FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #0 r202964M ia64

I've built a kernel with smbfs module:

# ls -al /boot/kernel/smb*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  265579 25 Jan 13:36 /boot/kernel/smbfs.ko
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  680186 25 Jan 13:36 /boot/kernel/smbfs.ko.symbols

but can't load it:

# kldload smbfs
kldload: can't load smbfs: No such file or directory


Other modules load fine with kldload, e.g.:

# ls -al /boot/kernel/geom_part_apm*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  21320 25 Jan 13:36 /boot/kernel/geom_part_apm.ko
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  51141 25 Jan 13:36 /boot/kernel/geom_part_apm.ko.symbols
# kldload geom_part_apm
# kldstat
Id Refs Address            Size     Name
 1    5 0xe000000004000000 b69e60   kernel
 2    1 0xe000000004b6a000 3d268    geom_mirror.ko
 3    1 0xa000000000646000 14000    geom_part_apm.ko
# 

All I need is to mount an MS WIndows partition to my fbsd box.

Please advise

many thanks
anton

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