Subject: Re: wsconsctl: /dev/wskbd: Device not configured
To: Ralf Doering <rdoering@netsys-it.de>
From: matthew sporleder <msporleder@gmail.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/20/2006 10:05:33
You might need wscons=3DYES in /etc/rc.conf.

On 2/20/06, Ralf Doering <rdoering@netsys-it.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> on a really small laptop running 3.0 with kernel GENERIC_TINY,
> "wsconsctl -k -a" yields to the error message
> "wsconsctl: /dev/wskbd: Device not configured"
>
> According to my not-so-deep understanding of NetBSDs device drivers,
> wskbd is compiled in and activated:
>
> ,----
> | $ dmesg | grep wskbd
> | wskbd0 at pckbd0 (mux ignored): console keyboard
> | wsdisplay0 at vga0 (kbdmux ignored): console (80x25, vt100 emulation),
> |  using wskbd0
> `----
>
> Am I correct in assuming that wskbd is available according to boot
> messages? Has something else to be activated in the kernel for
> wsconsctl to work?
>
> TIA
>
> Ralf
>