From owner-freebsd-net Fri Feb 8 14:55:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17D4B37B404 for ; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 14:55:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id g18MtC631553; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 14:55:12 -0800 Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 14:55:12 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: W Alexander Hagen Cc: Kevin Oberman , net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to Update and recompile an device driver Message-ID: <20020208145512.A30270@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20020204204445.8DF855D0D@ptavv.es.net> <20020208224431.72985.qmail@web9906.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="bp/iNruPH9dso1Pn" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020208224431.72985.qmail@web9906.mail.yahoo.com>; from aligzanduh@yahoo.com on Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 02:44:31PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --bp/iNruPH9dso1Pn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --bp/iNruPH9dso1Pn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8ZFdPXY6L6fI4GtQRAq5qAJ437lO84ZJui1gdgZsxhzfIVqElWgCgpvWh 5V6Dt7bvOlyybCFdBNocmn4= =EvBt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --bp/iNruPH9dso1Pn-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message