Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:43:58 -0700 From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> To: Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: device "urtw" is unknown Message-ID: <4A5FAD2E.1070200@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <200907161152.05474.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> References: <bb2d2fb50907152330l450b328er8ba7271f7e710c8b@mail.gmail.com> <bb2d2fb50907160934s73204dc1g84cf227e2aa676e1@mail.gmail.com> <bb2d2fb50907160938q6e872dafl948c20b700c36fa8@mail.gmail.com> <200907161152.05474.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net>
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Mel Flynn wrote:
> On Thursday 16 July 2009 08:38:37 Rob Farmer wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 08:22, Paul B. Mahol<onemda@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 7/16/09, Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> wrote:
>>>> [Redirecting to -current]
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday 15 July 2009 22:30:05 Rob Farmer wrote:
>>>>> I am trying to build a custom kernel with the urtw device on 8.0 beta
>>>>> 1 amd64. According to the man page, I should add device urtw to my
>>>>> config (just Generic plus this) and it should work. But, I get:
>>>>>
>>>>> config: Error: device "urtw" is unknown
>>>> Can reproduce. It is built as module though, so you can kldload if_urtw.
>>>> Perhaps the ${_urtw} magic in sys/modules/usb/Makefile is not understood
>>>> by config(8).
>>> Negative, urtw is not mentioned in /sys/conf/files*
>>>
>>> --
>>> Paul
>> Ok , so I added it to /sys/conf/files and it seems to compile and run
>> fine. Is this correct or is there more to it?
>
> It is correct for your machine. Unless there's a technical reason this module
> wasn't added to sys/conf/files*, rather then an oversight.
> The correct fix for the official FreeBSD source tree would be a bit more
> involved as the driver (or device) only supports i386 and amd64.
uwrtm should work on any architecture; I expect weongyo will fix this
since it's his driver.
Sam
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