From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 5 12: 8: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA1AB37B406 for ; Sun, 5 May 2002 12:08:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4005D28B91; Sun, 5 May 2002 15:08:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 15:08:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: Aaron Burke Cc: FreeBSD LIST Subject: RE: ls -al /dev | wc -l In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020505150503.O85419-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Sun, 5 May 2002, Aaron Burke wrote: > You should be able to type the following as root. Allthough I am no expert on this subject, sh MAKEDEV all should rebuild the list of devices. From my box. > alpha# cd /dev ; sh MAKEDEV all Is a command similar to that run at boot-time though? i.e. when is the above command necessary? For plug-n-play situations? > On my box, I only show 859. But I do have a few options in the kernel for devices that dont exist. Such as a floppy drive, etc. That may help. I hope so. [Oops, since top-posted original snipped] - This does help, some, thanks. And to the person who posted that they had 1119: Great post. *sarcasm* :) -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message