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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NEED ed0/ed1 major/minor nos.
Date: 11 Dec 1994 00:05:14 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  Montana
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Message-ID: <3cdfnq$qbp@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
References: <3cadoh$nro@siesta.cs.wustl.edu>
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In article <3cadoh$nro@siesta.cs.wustl.edu>,
Mark Alan Foltz <maf1@siesta.cs.wustl.edu> wrote:
>Hey.  Trying to intall a NE2000 compatible card under FreeBSD 1.1, and I don't
>have the ed0 and ed1 devices in /dev.  Could someone email me their major
>and minor nos so I can create them manually?  (Couldn't find them in the
>kernal source.) 

The ethernet devices don't exist as device special files on the
filesystem.  They only exist internally, and are accessed via ifconfig
in /etc/netstart.


Nate
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