Re: Strange behaviour
On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 08:56:23AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>
> The one that came with kernel-source-2.4.18 right? Most (if not all)
> of the symptoms you described can be traced to device access ...
>
The one that came with the kernel source, yes... however it doesn't refer to
the type of difficulties I'm experiencing
> >
> > ?? His only reference to devfs was "If you use devfs you may need ...". It
> > doesn't seem likely that he used it at all. I think you're going about this
> > in the wrong order. Turn off devfs first, get it working, THEN try figuring
> > out what to do to get devfs. Devfs is no more likely to work with your
> > configuration on 2.4.19 than on an earlier kernel.
>
> The ONLY reference to devfs on that page reads:
>
> Note: If you use devfs you may need to make the device: mknod
> /dev/hdb b 3 64
>
I should have been more specific, the kernel config from the page has devfs
enabled, from that and the lack of mention of any substantive issues I
inferred that it would work fine.
MBG
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