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From: jeffrey@sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Jeffrey L Bromberger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Files for all devices??
Summary: No device for ethernet card!
Keywords: DEUNA VAX BSD
Message-ID: <1991Apr1.203925.19204@sci.ccny.cuny.edu>
Date: 1 Apr 91 20:39:25 GMT
Sender: jeffrey@sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Jeffrey L Bromberger)
Reply-To: jeffrey@sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Jeffrey L Bromberger)
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Organization: City College of New York - Science Computing Facility
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OK.  Here's a simple question.  Unfortunately, I can't think of a good
answer to it.

We're running 4.3BSD (pretty much vanilla) on a VAX (780).  In /dev,
there is a node for *every* piece of hardware.  Every tty, disk, tape,
etc. has an entry.

So, how come no entry for the DEUNA ethernet card?  I realize it's
configured as a pseudo-device, but ptys (also pseudodevices) have
entries!  Doesn't this go against the policy of "everything has a
filename"?

Many thanks in advance for any insight you can send my way.

j
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Jeffrey L. Bromberger
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