From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 27 12:27: 5 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1718F37B420 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 12:27:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail17.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C59ED43ED8 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 12:27:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 7111 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2003 20:27:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail17.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 27 Jan 2003 20:27:07 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0RKQxUT058037; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 15:26:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3E35932C.1070909@blueboxstudio.net> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 15:27:04 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: FredBriand Subject: RE: where is MAKEDEV Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 27-Jan-2003 FredBriand wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to FreeBSD and I'm busy installing it on a notebook. Up to now > everything seems OK, but my sound card. In the handbook they say I must > use the MAKEDEV script (as in Linux) but I can't find it on my disk. > I tried to download it with the sysinstall tool but again there seems to > be no package available. > > What can I do? > > Please help. fred. If you have installed 5.0, then you are using devfs which means that you don't need MAKEDEV. Devices appear in /dev automatically. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message