From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 14 14:55:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA22096 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 May 1998 14:55:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA (harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA [132.204.2.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA22051 for ; Thu, 14 May 1998 14:55:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA) Received: from epsom.jsp.umontreal.ca (epsom.JSP.UMontreal.CA [132.204.45.25]) by harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA01230; Thu, 14 May 1998 17:55:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from derby.jsp.umontreal.ca (derby.jsp.umontreal.ca [132.204.46.26]) by epsom.jsp.umontreal.ca via ESMTP (951211.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH1502/JSP1789) id RAA20106; Thu, 14 May 1998 17:55:41 -0400 Received: from localhost (beaupran@localhost) by derby.jsp.umontreal.ca via SMTP (951211.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH1502/JSP1789) id RAA14276; Thu, 14 May 1998 17:55:37 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: derby.jsp.umontreal.ca: beaupran owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 17:55:37 -0400 (EDT) From: BEAUPRE Antoine To: Forrest Aldrich cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HANDBOOK error regarding MAKEDEV and printing In-Reply-To: <199805141614.MAA03124@navinet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 14 May 1998, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > In the URL http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook85.html#printing:software > > It instructs to use MAKEDEV to create the device entries for ports like > sio0, etc. This does not work, and is not in the scripts. I presume this > is an error. I don't know about you but my devices /dev/sioX are all there by default... Maybe your kernel doesn't include thses devices, which would be surprising since there in the GENERIC kernel. Double check your /dev directory for these entries and, while your at it, make a custom kernel, it's worth it!! ;) +-----------------------------------+ | Free the world from businessmen | | Free yourself from your money | +-----------------------------------+ Free the web. Spidey visit: http://www.JSP.UMontreal.CA/~beaupran To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message