11 Dec
2000
11 Dec
'00
1:17 p.m.
Ram Meenakshisundaram wrote:
Thanks for the response, but there is no MAKEDEV on Solaris.
That's correct. It's mknod, although it's use is somethat deprecated in
favor of creating symbolic links to the physical name of the device in
/devices.
You are
supposed to run "boot -r" to reconfigure /dev and /devices and it should
automatically appear. But it didnt happen. :-(
Uh, boot -r isn't a configuration panacea. It causes add_drv and drvconfig
to be invoked which aren't going to deal well with random third-party devices
stuffed onto the bus.
I'd hit /var/adm/messages to make sure that the thing is being sized (Solaris
always sizes the bus, regardless of the -r argument to boot), and if so
go edit /etc/path_to_inst by hand and either use mknod or create your own
symlinks to finish the job -- unless, of course, the device isn't being
sized, in which case you've got a hardware issue to chase after first.
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