Devices not being built
Mike Sacauskis
mikejs at mbay.net
Wed Jul 7 21:10:21 PDT 2004
-----Original Message-----
From: nkinkade at gentoo-npk.bmp.ub [mailto:nkinkade at gentoo-npk.bmp.ub] On
Behalf Of Nathan Kinkade
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 3:02 PM
To: mikejs at mbay.net
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Devices not being built
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
> > --
> > PGP Public Key:
pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xD8527E49
> >
>
> 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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>
>Thanks
Thanks I'll check the sites out. I did some net searching and was
under the impression some people got the WMP11 going with the an
driver.
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