Devices not being built

[Nathan Kinkade]

On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 08:12:35PM +0000, mikejs at mbay.net wrote:
> > 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
> wi> reless
> > > 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. 
> Wh> at 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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> > 
> 
> I have a WMP card and I thought that the an driver was supposed to work for 
> that.  I threw in the others to see if they would show
> up.

Always keep the list copied on replies.

I didn't see any Linksys wireless cards explicitly listed in the 5.2.1
hardware notes:

http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.2.1R/hardware-i386.html#AEN815

Some searches on the web are sure to turn up some pages about
others trying to get that and similar cards to work with FreeBSD.

Nathan
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