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Date:      Wed, 14 Sep 2005 12:46:49 -0700
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Kirk Davis <Kirk.Davis@epsb.ca>
Cc:        "'freebsd-current@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Using devd to automate wireless | wired network connections
Message-ID:  <20050914194649.GA5440@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <04C71268DFDAA8499EC1A248A44B6A2B34C132@Exchange21.EDU.epsb.ca>
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On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 01:38:44PM -0600, Kirk Davis wrote:
> =20
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org=20
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Brooks Davis
> > Sent: September 14, 2005 9:54 AM
> > To: Jochen Gensch
> > Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: Using devd to automate wireless | wired network=20
> > connections
> >=20
> > On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 11:54:45AM +0200, Jochen Gensch wrote:
> > > Am Mittwoch 14 September 2005 02:41 schrieben Sie:
> > >=20
> > > > Have you tried those changes?  If so, are your devices
> > > > actually generating media events?  If not, that has to be=20
> > fixed and
> > > > that's a kernel issue.
> > >=20
>=20
>     Is there any diagnostic tools that can show the messages that get pas=
sed
> from the kernel to devd? I have though of some other uses for devd where I
> would like to run a script on a device up/down or new device insert but I=
'm
> not sure if there is an event sent to devd for that.  It would be nice to
> have a tool that would show if devd was getting an even for that device.
> This might also help show the devices that do not yet generate media even=
ts.

I typicaly just run devd in debugging mode for that.  There's also a
named pipe in /var/run/devd.pipe with the input to devd on it so if you
wanted to write a dumping tool, that would be a good target.

-- Brooks

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