mwavem on 5.1-REL panic

[Aron Roberts]

Thanks for the update :) I had a feeling this might be the case. Thanks 
for having it work on 4.x etc.. :)


On Friday, June 13, 2003, at 03:00  PM, Kevin Oberman wrote:

>> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 14:43:50 -0400
>> From: Aron Roberts <aron at slam.cc>
>> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile at 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 at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634