From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 5 9:11:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts5.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ACB237B409 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 09:11:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from d.tracker ([65.92.122.20]) by tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20010905161121.HPLA10424.tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net@d.tracker>; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:11:21 -0400 Received: (from david@localhost) by d.tracker (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f864EeO12023; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 00:14:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from david) Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 00:14:25 -0400 From: David Banning To: Wyatt Banks Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: to MAKEDEV or not to MAKEDEV, that is my question Message-ID: <20010906001425.B11963@sympatico.ca> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from banksw@fang.cs.sunyit.edu on Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 09:42:15AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You tried, I guess, "man MAKEDEV" and "vi /dev/MAKEDEV" ? On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 09:42:15AM -0400, Wyatt Banks wrote: > Apparently on this mailing list there seems to be a lot of confusion about > when to use makedev and what argument to pass it. Is there an official > guide that shows me exactly when I add an X to my system, that I need to > makedev Y and makedev Z? > > I ask, because every time I get a new piece of hardware, I see many people > asking how to configure it yet there are no replies that end up being > anywhere close (even when some of the reply authors claim to run the exact > same piece of hardware). > > thank you for any help > banksw@sunyit.edu > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- An artist should be fit for the best society and keep out of it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message