Re: a strange problem with modules 2/4... debian kernel 2.6.7-1-386

From: Abdullah Ramazanoglu (abdullah_at_ramazanoglu.tr)
Date: 08/30/04 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:04:07 +0300

begin RRB <rrb@despammed.com> dedi ki:
> Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote:
>> begin RRB <rrb@despammed.com> dedi ki:
>> --8<--
>>
>>>echo pippo>/dev/lp0
>>>/dev/lp0: No such device or address
>>
>> A devfs problem? Try
>>
>> cd /dev
>> ../MAKEDEV lp0
>
> Thank you v.m. for the tip, but i'm not sure i have devfs.
> It should show in df -a ? THats the output:
>
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1 6728376 3063016 3323576 48% /
> proc 0 0 0 - /proc
> sysfs 0 0 0 - /sys
> devpts 0 0 0 - /dev/pts
> tmpfs 258716 0 258716 0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hda5 32295172 10056036 20598620 33% /home
> usbfs 0 0 0 - /proc/bus/usb

It seems that you don't have devfs, or it is not started in initscripts.
Then, MAKEDEV would statically create the /dev/lp0 device node, so it
would be usable without devfs. 

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