From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 23 04:20:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BB0016A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 04:20:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from typhoon.he.net (typhoon.he.net [64.62.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 624FE43D2D for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 04:20:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bill@wiliweld.com) Received: from yoga.billschoolcraft.com ([63.204.157.14]) by typhoon.he.net for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 21:19:46 -0700 Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 21:19:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Schoolcraft X-X-Sender: bill@bsd.billschoolcraft.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <20040622211818.L11581@bsd.billschoolcraft.com> System-ID: [en] (I; FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #0 x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: mknod /dev/psm0 c 21 1 root:wheel (fails..) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 04:20:19 -0000 Subject: mknod /dev/psm0 c 21 1 root:wheel (fails..) Hello, I've been trying to figure out "what" creates /dev/psm0 on FreeBSD-5.2.1 for I'm stuck with a new Dell-Inspiron-5150 where FreeBSD cannot see the standard mouse. As I stated in my last email, Linux and Windows-XP has not displayed this problem. Sooo, I took a look on my other FreeBSD-5.2.1 laptop, a Fujitsu and saw that the files that are missing are on this laptop so I read the manpage for "mknod" and ran the following commands in hope of creating /dev/psm0 I used the same major:minor numbers from my laptop and got the following error. #> mknod /dev/psm0 c 21 1 root:wheel And here was the error I got. #> mknod: /dev/psm0: No such file or directory Well depite messing with this for quite some time I still had enought humor left to say outloud...... NO KIDDING.. Soooo, I'm now wondering what does create /dev/psm0 and what does it take from the keyboard to create devices such as /dev/psm0 and /dev/mouse etc. The mouse is NOT detected via sysinstall and I noticed in the "mouse" setup options there was also an option that mentioned a non-existant device file, that was /dev/mse0 Thanks for any help on this. :) -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 -o) San Francisco CA 94121 /\ "UNIX, A Way Of Life." _\_v http://billschoolcraft.com