Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 08:37:12 -0500 From: "Michael E. Mercer" <mmercer@nc.rr.com> To: jitendra pande <jpande_techinfo@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with usb in FreeBSD 4.8....help!!! Message-ID: <1080481032.802.15.camel@fast.mmercer.com> In-Reply-To: <20040328105039.64843.qmail@web42005.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040328105039.64843.qmail@web42005.mail.yahoo.com>
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Dynamically created device nodes are new in 5.x stream. You must use MAKEDEV located in /dev to create whatever nodes you need in 4.x and earlier. HTH Michael On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 05:50, jitendra pande wrote: > Hi, > > I have stuck with a problem with usb devices. > > In case of FreeBSD 4.8, whenever a new USB device is attached to the system, no device node is dynamically being created within the dev file system. > > This is in contrast to the behavior there with FreeBSD 5.0 where a new device node is being created on attaching a new USB device, Fox example when first USB device is attached then /dev/ugen0 node is created dynamically in dev file system. when 2nd device is added then /dev/ugen1 and so on .....ugen2, ugen3....... > > On the other hand with freeBSD 4.8 there exist some static device node /dev/ugen0, /dev/ugen0.x where x =1-16 within the /dev file system. > > My application uses libusb for iinteracting with the usb devices...libusb on freeBSD 4.8 tries to find /debv/ugen0, /dev/ugen1 and so on....hence couldn't able to detect more then one device. > > It would really be great if someone can help me in resolving the issue Any idea why this changes in the behavior with FreeBSD 4.8 and FreeBSD 5.0 > > Any help will be highly appreciated. > > > Thanks > Jitendra > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-smp@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-smp > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-smp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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