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Date:      Fri, 8 Feb 2002 14:55:12 -0800
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        W Alexander Hagen <aligzanduh@yahoo.com>
Cc:        Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>, net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to Update and recompile an device driver
Message-ID:  <20020208145512.A30270@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
In-Reply-To: <20020208224431.72985.qmail@web9906.mail.yahoo.com>; from aligzanduh@yahoo.com on Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 02:44:31PM -0800
References:  <20020204204445.8DF855D0D@ptavv.es.net> <20020208224431.72985.qmail@web9906.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 02:44:31PM -0800, W Alexander Hagen wrote:
>=20
>    Is is possible to cvsup only a device driver. I have tried copying the
>    source of the driver and then rebuilding the kernel, but it allways
>    seems to invoke dependencies that are assumed to be updated over the
>    base 4.3 FreeBSD as well. The latest try I get
>=20
>    if_an.c IFM_IEE80211 undeclared and related messages

By far, your best bet is to give up now and do an OS upgrade.  Updating
drivers independently is a completly unsupported operation for experts
only.  The above error means you need to updated your if_media support.
To do that you need to find the commit logs for the upgrades to add
IEEE 802.11 support to if_media and update all the files in question.
There are probalby other things you'd have to update too.

>    How can I update the AN Driver !! The suggestion by Kevin Oberman:
>   =20
>    1. Did not specify where to get the updated AN drivers (I got the
>    latest from the source online in the /src/sys/dev/an MAIN branch)

You'd want RELENG_4 so you get one from the same branch of the source
tree as you are using.

>    2. When I tried cd /usr/sys I got directory not found.

/usr/src/sys

-- Brooks

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