"Jorge Sousa" wrote: >I'm glad you raised that issue, how can we know what's in the kernel?? > Like this:
$ cat /proc/devices Character devices: 1 mem 2 pty 3 ttyp 4 ttyp 5 cua 6 lp 7 vcs 9 st 10 misc 14 sound 21 sg 30 socksys 36 netlink 43 ttyI 44 cui 45 isdn Block devices: 3 ide0 8 sd 11 sr The numbers are the major device numbers as reported by ls -l. For example: $ ls -l /dev/lp* crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 0 Dec 9 1996 /dev/lp0 crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 1 Dec 9 1996 /dev/lp1 crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 2 Dec 9 1996 /dev/lp2 crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 3 Dec 9 1996 /dev/lp3 -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 ======================================== "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." John 15:13 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
