-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 10 January 2003 11:07 am, Toralf Lund wrote: > I have a driver for an optional hardware component (a frame grabber) > that I want the system to set up automatically upon reboot after the > hardware has been installed. I've managed to modify > /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids and /usr/share/hwdata/pcitable in such a > manner that "kudzu" will correctly update /etc/modules.conf (after the > usual user confirmation.) However, I also need to create special device > files for the unit. What's the best/recommended way of doing that?
mknod 'man mknod' for details, but basic usage is: mknod NAME TYPE MAJOR MINOR As an example, the device file for /dev/hda: mknod /dev/hda b 3 0 /dev/hda is a block device (b) major 3 minor 0 $ ll /dev/hda brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 0 Aug 30 19:31 /dev/hda - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+H59qn/07WoAb/SsRAiDbAKCWR8eaJ2NYAXYEVfqmH6p78lE8lgCfRruS znVoNHmrvuE3jmWqu59RH2M= =afAX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
