5.4 Generic Kernel - da and scbus...I'm at a loss

[Sebastien]

> I am a newbie to kernel related things.  I'm running 5.4 using the generic 
> kernel.  I am problems with using an iPod via USB, and it seems that I may 
> not have device support for sa and scbus in my kernel.  I have been 
> searching for a few hours this evening using various criteria and am still 
> unable to get past this issue.
> 
> It seems like the failure is that a device node /dev/da* for the umass drive 
> isn't be created.  Any help would be appreciated.  I am going to try booting 
> the 6.0 kernel off CD next and then go from there.

I had the same problem with a "nano".

I had many difficulties to find a way to solve it too. Finally this link
helped me
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-usb/2005-September/001534.html


I patched /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/usb_subr.c as described, compiled my
kernel again and it works...


I'm not sure that it's the right way but it works...