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Date:      Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:06:16 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        St?phane Le Maure <sma@tiscali.fr>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: disappearance of /dev/mem
Message-ID:  <20050210210616.GA99318@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <420A7A03.7090908@tiscali.fr>
References:  <420A7A03.7090908@tiscali.fr>

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On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:00:51PM +0100, St?phane Le Maure wrote:
> Hello all
>=20
> I have a big problem since the upgrade of 5.2 towards 5.3.
> The file /dev/mem does not exist any more in /dev and thus all the=20
> programs using this file does not function any more.
> There of another person is who has the concern.
> Thank you very much for your assistance.

Add 'device mem' to your kernel (you probably also want 'device io').
In general, read /usr/src/UPDATING whenever you update your system.

Kris

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