On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:43:53 -0400
"Stephen M. Rumble" <stephen.rumble@utoronto.ca> wrote:

> Quoting George Harvey <fr30@dial.pipex.com>:
> 
> > On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:44:54 +0000
> > George Harvey <fr30@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I've updated my Challenge S to 4.0BETA2 and I've been building some
> >> packages from pkgsrc. Most things seem to be working OK but one
> >that > isn't is snmpd from net-snmp. This compiles and installs fine
> >but when > I try and run it I get '/dev/ksyms: Device not
> >configured'. I'm > running the GENERIC kernel and I've checked that
> >ksyms are enabled in > the GENERIC config file and that /dev/ksyms
> >exists. What am I missing > / doing wrong?

[ snip ]
 
> I think that this has been happening since I started playing with  
> sgimips three or four years ago. However, Martin Husemann brought the 
>  following up a few months ago:
> 
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sgimips/2006/12/26/0000.html
> 
> I'm not sure if this would fix what you're seeing, nor whether he  
> committed anything, but it may be worth investigating.

Ahh, my googling didn't find that message. Applied the patch, installed
the new bootloader and I've now got a working /dev/ksyms!

Thanks,
George