Subject: Re: /dev/lkm
To: David Bushong <dbushong@cory.EECS.Berkeley.EDU>
From: Colin Wood <ender@is.rice.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/13/1997 20:47:21
> I was using one of Taras' pre-1.2 nubus color kernels (with 1.2 binaries,
> wasn't that fun!) and decided to try the lkm.  I did the following:
> 
> - Installed "netbsd12" from ftp.netbsd.org in /netbsd
> - Made the directory /usr/lkm
> - Copied the precompiled video_lkm_combined.o into /usr/lkm
> - Added the line "modload -o /tmp/video -e video_lkm_cmd video_lkm_combined.o"
>   to my /etc/rc.local (at the end)
> - Went into /dev and did a ./MAKEDEV lkm (I didn't have a /dev/lkm)
> - Rebooted.
> 
> Modload then proceeds to tell me:
> modload: /dev/lkm: Device not configured
> 
> So, in 50 words or less, what am I missing here?

Sounds good, but I have a feeling that the NetBSD 1.2 kernel doesn't have an

options 	LKM

line in it's config file.  Configure such a kernel and all should be fine.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                      ender@is.rice.edu
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