On Monday 20 September 2004 01:18, Omer Zak wrote: > I have found, the hard way, that there are neither /dev/hdc* nor > /dev/cdrom in my ThinkPad R40e laptop Debian/testing/non-US/main > installation. > > The kernel is 2.6.8 unchanged from the Debian testing package which > installed it. > > I did find that there is something called udev, which was supposed to > automatically create the device files when CD-ROM is recognized. > The CD-ROM device was recognized (there are the appropriate dmesg > messages, and there are both /proc/ide/ide0/hda and /proc/ide/ide1/hdc > directories, whose "files" inside them have the information > corresponding to correctly-identified hard drive and CD-ROM respectively). > > I also looked to see if there is any relevant Debian package, which I > neglected to install, and found nothing pertinent (I used dselect and > looked for packages whose names conform to the pattern *cd*). > > What should I check for now? > I do not want to manually create /dev/hdc!!! > > --- Omer
I'm working from memory here (haven't done it for over 2 years), there is a "make dev" or something like that... inside the /dev directory that you should run to create all the devices links... (as I remember there are two ways of creating devices, the first is to create only the one that is in use, and the other -> more popular to create all of them...) But I never tested it with kernel 2.6 only on kernel 2.4 (when I installed LFS ..). Please note (at least in my Debian Sid) that /dev/cdrom is only a symlink to the original device. I hope this will give you a point of start, Ido -- "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." Albert Einstein (Jun 29-Jul 4) ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
