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Old 20th April 2011
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I believe that the node should be generated when the device is inserted and it will be listed at the end of your dmesg output within seconds of insertion. In that version of freebsd it is likely controlled by "hal" (This is a different hal than the Space Odyssey but can be just as unfriendly).

More info here:
http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/halfaq.html
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