From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 4 00:54:54 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id AAA20584 for current-outgoing; Mon, 4 Sep 1995 00:54:54 -0700 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA20576 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 1995 00:54:52 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id AAA00480; Mon, 4 Sep 1995 00:54:36 -0700 To: Bruce Evans cc: current@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: devinfo - Houston, we have a small crisis here.. In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 04 Sep 1995 17:34:32 +1000." <199509040734.RAA13332@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Date: Mon, 04 Sep 1995 00:54:36 -0700 Message-ID: <478.810201276@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >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