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Date:      Fri, 28 Sep 2001 10:26:59 -0700
From:      "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
To:        fergus <tofergus@yahoo.co.uk>
Cc:        stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: xe (xircom) driver no longer in MAKEDEV 
Message-ID:  <200109281726.f8SHQxk16611@ptavv.es.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 28 Sep 2001 17:13:43 BST." <20010928171343.D3792@dedog.argus-systems.co.uk> 

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> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 17:13:43 +0100
> From: fergus <tofergus@yahoo.co.uk>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
> 
> i'm sure this is simpler than i making it - guess i've missed a
> conversation thread, somewhere, about this.
> 
> basically somewhere in the last two/three weeks the xe driver has
> dissappeared from MAKEDEV.
> 
> how can add the node as i cannot find the driver number in the
> majors file?

If you ever found xe in MAKEDEV, I'd be surprised as network devices
are created on the fly with no entry ever created in /dev. You should
never have any network device in /dev.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634

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