Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 07:57:07 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Marco Shaw <marco@nbnet.nb.ca>, "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ed0/ThinkPad/mknod question Message-ID: <20000508075707.J55316@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005071145170.2429-100000@linux.local> References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005071145170.2429-100000@linux.local> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005071038260.19308-100000@pogo.caustic.org> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005071145170.2429-100000@linux.local>
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On Sunday, 7 May 2000 at 11:52:48 -0300, Marco Shaw wrote:
> If someone could be so kind to give me an 'ls -al' on /dev/ed0...
>
> I've been banging my head against the wall for a couple of days. I
> can't get the networking to work on my ThinkPad 390x.
It sounds like you're talking about the Ethernet card, but you haven't
said which one.
> My biggest block right now it to get the ed0 device driver to create
> itself.
There are no device entries for Ethernet cards.
> I've cleaned up the devices at boot time (boot -c-->visual) to make
> sure ed0 was there without conflicts, but it still doesn't show up
> in dmesg.
>
> Now I'm going to try to create the device manually with mknod to see
> if that gets me any further.
That's impossible. First you need a major device number, but there
isn't one.
> pccardd just complains about 'no card in database for ""("")', but
> I've copied over pccard.conf.sample to pccard.conf, unless there's
> something else...
This typically means that it's misreading the CIS information from a
CardBus card. We don't support CardBus yet.
On Sunday, 7 May 2000 at 10:43:27 -0700, f.johan.beisser wrote:
> you shouldn't have to create the device, and if you do, it should't
> be much more than "cd /dev/ ; ./MAKEDEV ep0" to create it.
Please check this sort of statement before posting it. There is no
such device, so MAKEDEV will not work.
Greg
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