From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 11 23:34:43 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D5F3106566C for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:34:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pb@ludd.ltu.se) Received: from mother.ludd.ltu.se (mother.ludd.ltu.se [130.240.16.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0578D8FC1C for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:34:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pb@ludd.ltu.se) Received: from brother.ludd.ltu.se (root@brother.ludd.ltu.se [130.240.16.78]) by mother.ludd.ltu.se (8.13.6+Sun/8.12.10) with ESMTP id m7BNYbH2023105; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:34:37 +0200 (MEST) Received: from brother.ludd.ltu.se (pb@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by brother.ludd.ltu.se (8.13.6+Sun/8.12.2) with ESMTP id m7BNYbTl021395; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:34:37 +0200 (MEST) Received: (from pb@localhost) by brother.ludd.ltu.se (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6/Submit) id m7BNYb4Q021393; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:34:37 +0200 (MEST) From: Peter B Message-Id: <200808112334.m7BNYb4Q021393@brother.ludd.ltu.se> To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr (Giorgos Keramidas) Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:34:37 +0200 (MEST) In-Reply-To: <87ljz3upql.fsf@kobe.laptop> from "Giorgos Keramidas" at Aug 12, 2008 01:54:42 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel compile R7.0 i386 GENERIC, fails X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:34:43 -0000 >> In previous releases. It was possible to make at leas the generic >> kernel compile out of the box. > >It still is. You have to get the full sources though. > >What you are trying to do now, by extracting more parts of the source >tree as you need them is a very good way to learn the dependencies of >the various parts of the source tree, but it is likely to fail a few >times until you get all the necessary bits. > >All this is *very* good as learning experience, but it may be >frustrating if you just want ``something that works now, instead of, >say, a week later''. I found the errors: 1) add "device acpi" to kernel configuration file. 2) Faulty FreeBSD NFS server makeing directory entries empty. So I got all the required source distributions. And I got the ae and ath driver upgraded and working. Thanks anyway for trying to point in the right direction.