Problem with usb in FreeBSD 4.8....help!!!

[Michael E. Mercer]

Dynamically created device nodes are new in 5.x stream. You must use
MAKEDEV located in /dev to create whatever nodes you need in 4.x and
earlier.

HTH
Michael


On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 05:50, jitendra pande wrote:
> Hi,
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> I have stuck with a problem with usb devices.
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> In case of FreeBSD 4.8, whenever a new USB device is attached to the system, no device node is dynamically being created within the dev file system.
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> This is in contrast to the behavior there with FreeBSD 5.0 where a new device node is being  created on attaching a new USB device, Fox example when first USB device is attached then /dev/ugen0 node is created dynamically in dev file system. when 2nd device is added then /dev/ugen1 and so on .....ugen2, ugen3.......
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> On the other hand with freeBSD 4.8 there exist some static device node /dev/ugen0, /dev/ugen0.x where x =1-16 within the /dev file system.
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> My application uses libusb for iinteracting with the usb devices...libusb on freeBSD 4.8 tries to find /debv/ugen0, /dev/ugen1 and so on....hence couldn't able to detect more then one device.
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> It would really be great if someone can help me in resolving the issue Any idea why this changes in the behavior with  FreeBSD 4.8 and FreeBSD 5.0
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> Any help will be highly appreciated.
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> Thanks
> Jitendra
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