I had a similar problem, hwclock failing with the stated message. Adding rtc to /etc/modules solved it for me. I do not believe it is necessary to manually add the device to /dev (at least it wasn't for me).
You can check this by running "modprobe rtc" manually, and then trying hwclock again. Regards, -kurt Am Montag, den 30.05.2005, 19:05 +0200 schrieb Kurt Roeckx: > On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 12:38:59PM -0400, John Baab wrote: > > Every time I try to use hwclock I get this error: > > hwclock: Open of /dev/rtc failed, errno=2: No such file or directory. > > No usable clock interface found. > > Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method. > > cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV rtc > > > Kurt > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

