Re: PCMCIA /dev nodes

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From: Germano Leichsenring <germano@jedi.cs.kobe-u.ac.jp>
Subject: PCMCIA /dev nodes
Date: 20 Apr 2000 19:24:17 +0900
Message-ID: <[🔎] wrvpurljcj2.fsf@jedi.cs.kobe-u.ac.jp>

> Why aren't there /dev files for PCMCIA devices on Linux
> yet? Can anybody explain?

for network interfaces, linux doesn't have files in /dev, unlike in
bsd.  i'm not sure about other devices, but i didn't get the
impression that there were specific files under /dev that get used for
pcmcia -- e.g. my pcmcia modem gets /dev/ttyS2, but so can other
devices...