In 5.x devices are automatically built for you on first use. That is just one of the changes between 4.x and 5.x.
THAT IS WHY MAKEDEV DOES NOT WORK FOR YOU. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Frederick Thomas Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 12:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: freebsd 5.1 and devfs shalom, I read the manpage on devfs and can't make heads or tails of it. I've a cs4236 onboard pnp sound card that took 2 months to finally get running and I'm gonna wait that long this time. My box is a dell optiplex gx1 and using old school rules catted dmesg.boot and found pcm0<my card> but when I tried to run sh MAKEDEV snd0 I find that makedev is now deprecated. please assist in my using devfs to make device nodes please reply to address above. Thanks nikita --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
