From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 13 5:58:26 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3397F37B401 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 05:58:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A80BA43FA3 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 05:58:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-b150.otenet.gr [212.205.244.158]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1DDwB4A008821; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:58:14 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h1DDwAhq002566; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:58:10 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.7/8.12.7/Submit) id h1DDw9eP002565; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:58:09 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:58:09 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Jason Barnes Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs in 5.0 Message-ID: <20030213135809.GC2134@gothmog.gr> References: <20030212230244.S5758-100000@c3po.barnesos.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030212230244.S5758-100000@c3po.barnesos.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2003-02-12 23:04, Jason Barnes 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