Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:42:46 -0800 From: Maksim Yevmenkin <myevmenk@exodus.net> To: Yoshinori KASAZAKI <mia@gold.ocn.ne.jp> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: if_tap is working ? Message-ID: <3E035696.2090909@exodus.net> References: <20021220235558.6c4352a6.mia@gold.ocn.ne.jp>
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Hello,
Yoshinori KASAZAKI wrote:
>hi, guys.
>
>Does anyone have VMware2 port running successfully on -current ?
>
i'm :)
>
>my VMware2 port's startup script says
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/vmware.sh: cannot create /compat/linux/dev/vmnet1: Device not configured
>
>I digged into this a little and found that this message is from the line
> echo -n > $dev_vmnet1
>here, $dev_vmnet1 points to /usr/compat/linux/dev/vmnet1.
>
>if_tap is loaded as KLD as follows:
> 29 1 0xc3acd000 4000 if_tap.ko
>
what does `ls -la /usr/compat/linux/dev/vmnet1' say?
/usr/compat/linux/dev/vmnet1 should be symlink to /dev/vmnet1
vmware2 still wants to create device nodes under /linux/dev/
not symlinks. someone please fix
--- pre-install.orig Fri Dec 20 09:40:06 2002
+++ pre-install Fri Dec 20 09:40:43 2002
@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@
mknod ${linux_dev}/null c 2 2
chmod 666 ${linux_dev}/null
echo Creating vmnet1 node
-mknod /compat/linux/dev/vmnet1 c 149 65537
+rm /compat/linux/dev/vmnet1
+ln -s /dev/vmnet1 /compat/linux/dev/vmnet1
echo Creating $linux_dev/hd\?
mknod ${linux_dev}/hda b 0 0x00010002
mknod ${linux_dev}/hdb b 0 0x0001000a
>my -current is built yesterday and I've even re-installed VMware2 port a few times.
>CPUTYPE and no special CFLAGS etc are not defined in make.conf.
>
>same script works on -stable.
>Am I missing anything obvious ?
>
>
>
not really :) just a DEVFS side effect
thanks,
max
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