Re: /dev/psaux problems

[Amos Shapira <amos@dsi.co.il>]

David Winters <winters+@cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
|> On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Robert Resendes wrote:
|> >    If I try to "cat" the file, though, I get the following error:
|> > > cat /dev/psaux
|> > cat: /dev/psaux: No such device
|
|On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Mike Taylor wrote:
|> I don't think cat works here because /dev/psaux is not a regular file.
|
|	No, IMHO this error in this instance results from the /dev/psaux
|file not existing.  cat'ting an existing /dev/psaux file gives you a
|screenful of unreadable gibberish, but it gives you SOMETHING if the file
|exists.

You usually get this error when the device driver for this device
isn't compiled into the kernel (or no loadable module for it was
found?).

If the file didn't exist at all then you would have recieved a "No
such file or directory" error (otherwise, how would cat(1) know that
it is supposed to be a device? :-)

Try looking at your kernel's configuration and see if you have psaux
there.

Cheers,

--Amos

--Amos Shapira                    | "Of course Australia was marked for
133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st.          |  glory, for its people had been chosen
Jerusalem 93 805                  |  by the finest judges in England."
ISRAEL             amos@dsi.co.il |                     -- Anonymous