Bug 51467

Summary:	vtun doesn't work with 2.6 without a devfsd.conf patch
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Steven Wagner <stevenwagner>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2004.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Steven Wagner 2004-05-19 09:17:15 UTC

I couldn't get vtund to work with 2.6 at all.  Error in /var/log/messages said unable to load tun device.  I found a broken link in my /dev, and then found the exact solution in the debian mailing lists.  http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-danish/2003/09/msg00027.html

The solution is to add this block to the /etc/devfsd.conf:

# Create compatibility link for broken misc/net/tun driver (must uncomment the
# MKOLDCOMPAT for misc above if you want to use this)
REGISTER        ^misc/net/tun$  CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink   net/tun
REGISTER        ^misc/net/tun$  CFUNCTION GLOBAL symlink  /dev/$devname net/tun

Comment 1 Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-06-21 13:59:35 UTC

devfsd bug, not a kernel bug.

Comment 2 Steven Wagner 2004-08-20 15:34:00 UTC

btw...  MKOLDCOMPAT is already turned on in our devfsd.conf

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-02-11 17:06:04 UTC

added to cvs, sorry for the delay !