Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:58:09 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Jason Barnes <jbarnes@c3po.barnesos.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs in 5.0 Message-ID: <20030213135809.GC2134@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <20030212230244.S5758-100000@c3po.barnesos.net> References: <20030212230244.S5758-100000@c3po.barnesos.net>
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On 2003-02-12 23:04, Jason Barnes <jbarnes@c3po.barnesos.net> wrote: > I am sorry to bother you all with this, but I fundamentally don't > understand the new devfs system in 5.0. I am trying to get a usb mouse > working -- under 4.x I would do > > cd /dev > ./MAKEDEV usm0 > > and it would work! Now it says that I don't have to, that it should > already be there. But of course it isn't. So now what do I do? > The fancy automatic system isn't working, or more likely I'm not > using it correctly. Is there a good, long, thorough, technical > discussion with examples of how to get new devices into /dev with > devfs out there somewhere? Are you running usbd ? $ grep usbd /etc/rc.conf usbd_enable="YES" usbd_flags="" - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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