Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 12:00:28 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Aron Roberts <aron@slam.cc> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mwavem on 5.1-REL panic Message-ID: <20030613190028.8AAD95D04@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Aron Roberts <aron@slam.cc> <F9381A7C-9DCE-11D7-967B-000502916C37@slam.cc>
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> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 14:43:50 -0400 > From: Aron Roberts <aron@slam.cc> > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org > > I am having a problem with the mwavem in 5.1-RELEASE which causes the > kernel to panic immediately after the module is loaded. Is anyone else > experiencing this problem? > > I am using a thinkpad 600X. > > The only thing out of the ordinary that I did was remove the mknod > command from the port makefile.. since as near as I can tell the fancy > new devfs means I don't have to do that any more. > > Is this just an issue of the port needing to be updated to work with > 5.1? or are others not having this problem? Aron, Sorry. I need to mark that one a BROKEN on versions > 5 until I can get it updated. It does not understand devfs at the moment, so it has no chance of working with 5.1. As we speak I am updating my 600E to 5.1 to take a shot at fixing it, but I am not a simply turned Simon Walton's work on this into a port, so I don't make any promises as to when or if I'll get it fixed. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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