Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 19:47:30 -0300 From: "Marco Shaw" <marco@nbnet.nb.ca> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ed0/ThinkPad/mknod question Message-ID: <20000508002819.AAA5512@quartz.nbnet.nb.ca@Lxxxx.nbtel.nb.ca>
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My apologies to all. I never knew there was a difference between cardbus
and pccard. I, in fact, have a cardbus, and as mentioned below, it is not
supported.
Marco
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> From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
> To: Marco Shaw <marco@nbnet.nb.ca>; f.johan.beisser <jan@caustic.org>
> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: ed0/ThinkPad/mknod question
> Date: May 7, 2000 7:27 PM
>
> On Sunday, 7 May 2000 at 11:52:48 -0300, Marco Shaw wrote:
> > If someone could be so kind to give me an 'ls -al' on /dev/ed0...
> >
> > I've been banging my head against the wall for a couple of days. I
> > can't get the networking to work on my ThinkPad 390x.
>
> It sounds like you're talking about the Ethernet card, but you haven't
> said which one.
>
> > My biggest block right now it to get the ed0 device driver to create
> > itself.
>
> There are no device entries for Ethernet cards.
>
> > I've cleaned up the devices at boot time (boot -c-->visual) to make
> > sure ed0 was there without conflicts, but it still doesn't show up
> > in dmesg.
> >
> > Now I'm going to try to create the device manually with mknod to see
> > if that gets me any further.
>
> That's impossible. First you need a major device number, but there
> isn't one.
>
> > pccardd just complains about 'no card in database for ""("")', but
> > I've copied over pccard.conf.sample to pccard.conf, unless there's
> > something else...
>
> This typically means that it's misreading the CIS information from a
> CardBus card. We don't support CardBus yet.
>
> On Sunday, 7 May 2000 at 10:43:27 -0700, f.johan.beisser wrote:
> > you shouldn't have to create the device, and if you do, it should't
> > be much more than "cd /dev/ ; ./MAKEDEV ep0" to create it.
>
> Please check this sort of statement before posting it. There is no
> such device, so MAKEDEV will not work.
>
> Greg
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