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3. additional devices

you can create these devices with "MAKEDEV name" and delete them with "MAKEDEV -d name". you can either use the name listed here (this will create all possible devices), or individual devices (use the device name) e.g. "serial" will create all 64 serial devices ttyS[0-63] but "ttyS0" will only create this one.

3.1 serial devices

isdn-tty

isdn terminal devices. 64 devices : ttyI[0-63]

isdn-ppp

isdn sync ppp network devices. 64 devices : ippp[0-63]

isdn-io

isdn raw and control devices. 130 devices : isdn[0-63] isdnctrl[0-63] isdnctrl isdninfo

serial-cu

serial callout devices. they are only for compatibility, most people don't need them. 64 devices : cua[0-63]

isdn-cu

isdn call out devices. they are only for compatibility, most people don't need them. 64 devices : cui[0-63]

chase{-cu}

devices for chase serial card (append -cu to create call out devices). 32 devices ttyH[0-31] (cuh[0-31])

cyclades{-cu}

devices for cyclades serial card (append -cu to create call out devices). 32 devices ttyC[0-31] (cub[0-31])

digiboard{-cu}

devices for digiboard serial card (append -cu to create call out devices). 32 devices ttyD[0-31] (cud[0-31])

stallion{-cu}

devices for stallion serial card (append -cu to create callout devices). 32 devices ttyE[0-31] (cue[0-31])

stallion-mem

devices to access stallion serial card. 4 devices stallionmem[0-3]

specialix{-cu}

devices for specialix serial card (append -cu to create call out devices). 32 devices ttyX[0-31] (cux[0-31])

rockport{-cu}

devices for rockport serial card (append -cu to create call out devices). 32 devices ttyR[0-31] (cur[0-31])

riscom{-cu}

devices for riscom serial card (append -cu to create call out devices). 32 devices ttyL[0-31] (cul[0-31])

hayes{-cu}

devices for hayes serial card (append -cu to create call out devices). 32 devices ttyP[0-31] (cup[0-31])

baycom

devices for baycom radio modem. 32 devices bc[0-31]

computone{-cu}

devices for computone intelliport II serial card (append -cu to create call out devices). 32 devices ttyF[0-31] (cuf[0-31])

computone-ctrl

devices to access computone intelliport II serial card. 8 devices ip2ipl[0-3] and ip2stat[0-3]

dcbri

spellcaster datacomm\/bri isdn card. 4 devices dcbri[0-3]

3.2 misc devices

pty<@@formula>p-za-e]

master pty devices. 16 devices pty?[0-9a-f] each

tty<@@formula>p-za-e]

slave tty devices. 16 devices pty?[0-9a-f] each

floppy

generic only includes the fd0 and fd1 devices. this way you can generate devices for the 3rd ... 8th floppies. 30 devices each fd[0-7]*

framebuffer

universal frame buffer (68k,sparc). 22 devices fb0* fb1*

other-arch

amigamouse, atarimouse, sunmouse, openprom, kbd

double

"double" compressed disk. 16 devices [c]double[0-7]

ez<@@formula>a-d]

syquest ex135 parallel port removable drive. 20 partitions each

ed<@@formula>ab]

mca esdi hard disk. 20 partitions ed?* each

sbpcd<@@formula>234]

2nd,3rd,4th sound blaster cdrom controller. 4 devices sbpcdXX each

mscdex

MSCDEX CD-ROM callback support. 4 devices dos_cd[0-3]

cm205cd

cm205 cdrom devices (not supported in 2.x). 2 device cm205cd lmscd

ad<@@formula>a-p]

acsi disc\/cdrom (68k\/atari). 16 devices ad?* each

gs4500

genius 4500 handheld scanner. 1 device gs4500

slm

atari sm asci laser printer (68k\/atari). 4 devices slm[0-3]

ht

ide tape. 2 devices ht0 nht0

z2ram

zorro II ramdisk. 1 device z2ram

cfs

coda network file-system. 1 device cfs0

doubletalk

DoubleTalk PC speech synthesizer, from RC Systems. 1 device doubletalk

ibcs2

ibcs2 devices as described in "Linux Allocated Devices". you need to create the directory /dev/inet before running makedev. ibcs2-unoff has lots more devices (i don't know if all are needed, or not. in doubt use ibcs2-unoff). 9 devices (socksys spx nfsd X0R inet/*).

ibcs2-unoff

ibcs2 devices as described in the ibcs2 package. you need to create the directories "X" and "inet" before creating these devices. 74 devices (arp egp ggp icmp ip ipip pup rawip rip tcp udp nfsd X0R socksys spx pty[10-47] inet/* X/*)

3.3 sound

mpu401

mpu401 MIDI data & status ports. 2 devices mpu401{data,stat}

tclmidi

tclmidi midi driver. 12 devices midi[0-3] rmidi[0-3] smpte[0-3]

3.4 misc

wvisfgrab

quanta winvision frame grabber. 1 device wvisfrab

mmetfgrab

matrox meteor frame grabber. 1 device mmetfgrab

ml16p<@@formula>abc]

ml-16p experimental i\/o board. 20 device ml16p?* each

scc

Z8530 HDLC driver. 8 devices scc[0-7]

rom

rom\/flash memory card. 32 devices rom[0-7] rrom[0-7] flash[0-7] rflash[0-7]

netlink

netlink support. 2 devices route skip

mlanai

myricom pci myrinet board. 8 devices mlanai[0-7]

yamm

yet another micro monitor. 1 device yamm

bdm

bdm interface for remote debugging MC683xx mc. 6 devices pd_bdm[0-2] icd_bdm[0-2]

holter

electrocardiognosis holter serial port. 3 devices holter[0-2]

dsp56k

dsp56001 digital signal processor. 1 device dsp56k

adbus

apple desktop bus. this was disabled, because it clashes with ab[b], the second acsi device (m68k/atari acsi disk). 1 device adb

firewall

sf firewall package. 1 device firewall

plink

sundance plink transputer boards. 12 devices [r]plink[0-3][d]

enskip

enskip kernel encryption package

yppcpci

yarc powerpc pci coprocessor card

capi20

CAPI 2.0 interface. 21 devices capi20 capi20.[01-19]

ma16

ma16 numeric accelerator card

aps

spellcaster protocol service interface. 7 devices aps*

sci

dolphin interconnect solutions' pci-sci bridge. 4 devices SCI\/[0-3]


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