Re: Adding a driver

Where does your driver binary live?
Have you got a driver.conf file? (You have to have one, even if it's empty.)
What does "isainfo -k" report?

/kernel/drv

isainfo -k reports, "i386".


What sort of device are you (5th parameter)?
Its a PCI device, the 5th parameter is, "getcatds".

For some types of device, the /dev node is created automatically
as there are uniform naming rules for things like serial ports.
Otherwise, you'll need to add a line to /etc/devlink.tab to
cause your /dev link to be created, and that can be fiddly (it's
a very non-obvious format file).

Ok, I do have /etc/devlink.tab and made the following entry.
type=getcatds atds\NO

That should be a zero, not a capital 'o'.


It was, this was a typeo. I took a look at the devlink.tab and it was
a zero.


I presume that will give you /dev/atds0

thats what I'm looking for. Actually, its catds0

So right now, I'm stuck.

I don't know what else to try.
In my install file I do this to add an entry into the /etc/devlink.tab

echo ""type=getcatds\tcatds\\N0" >> /etc/devlink.tab

That is a 0 not a cap 'o'

Then I do this to start the driver
/usr/sbin/add_drv -m '* 0666 root sys' -i '"pci15e7,0756"' getcatds

then I get the message
devfsadm: driver failed to attach: getcatds

The getcatds driver is located in the \kernel\drv directory.
There is an entry, getcatds "pci15e7,0756" in /etc/driver_aliases

Any other ideas.


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