Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:38:53 +0100 From: Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> To: "c.s.prakash" <csprakash@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to create device files in FreeBSD 6 Message-ID: <43A8177D.2010007@locolomo.org> In-Reply-To: <43A812B9.7030905@gmail.com> References: <43A812B9.7030905@gmail.com>
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c.s.prakash wrote: > i have an external modem connected to serial port, i cant find any > deivce /dev/cuaa0 for serial port to connect, > and i cant able to create using mknod in /dev/ directory but i it is > possible in other directory, i did this as root. > > how can i create the device uing devfs, You shouldn't need to, devfs automatically updates /dev when new hardware is attached. It is likely that the correct driver isn't loaded. If the device driver is not compiled into the kernel then you can load a kernel module with kldload - assuming the device is supported. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: www.daemonsecurity.com/ca/8D03551FFCE04F06.crt Subject ID: 9E:AA:18:E6:94:7A:91:44:0A:E4:DD:87:73:7F:4E:82:E7:08:9C:72 Fingerprint: 5B:D5:1E:3E:47:E7:EC:1C:4C:C8:3A:19:CC:AE:14:F5:DF:18:0F:B9
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