Date: Mon, 04 Sep 1995 00:54:36 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: current@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: devinfo - Houston, we have a small crisis here.. Message-ID: <478.810201276@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 04 Sep 1995 17:34:32 %2B1000." <199509040734.RAA13332@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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> >I'd always intended to change this to grab the device list more the > >way lsdev(1) does it, but my hoped-for salvation there now appears to > >be imperiled by the fact that many important devices (like de0 and all > >CDs, SCSI disks and tapes, as I've so far found) just don't register > >the appropriate information. HELP! This is really going to screw me > > The SCSI devices are shown by lsdev here. Do you just need more > information? Really? When I do this: jkh@time-> lsdev -c -t disk # This listing automatically generated by lsdev(1) fd0 at fdc0 drive 0 I only get the floppy. I'd expect to see sd0 and sd1, too? I need to be able to tell which devices one can install to, after all.. > Another problem is that devconf is only supposed to handle devices > that need to be config(8)ed. For devices like multiport serial > cards where the individual serial ports don't need to be config(8)ed, > the devconf info might not show any of the ports. Argh! I need that for SLIP/PPP, too.. This is looking bleak. Jordan
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