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From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com>
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Subject: Re: How to Update and recompile an device driver
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To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 19:23:22 -0800 (PST)
Cc: W Alexander Hagen <aligzanduh@yahoo.com>,
	Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>, net@FreeBSD.ORG
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Brooks Davis writes:
| On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 02:44:31PM -0800, W Alexander Hagen wrote:
| > 
| >    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
| > 
| >    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.

... yep like Linux device private ioctl's and ancontrol changes.
You really are better off get the latest -stable and then building
everything.  Things will work better in the end.  Also if you find
a problem then getting a fix will be easier as well!

Doug A.

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