lan device files

[Adam Noble]

Hi,

I am in the process of installing an OS on an RP420 server which has two partitions. All is going surprisingly well since I have no idea what I'm doing. One problem I do have relates to the LAN device files. As the server was originally a single partition I needed to remove one cell from that partition so I could use the cell to create the 2nd partition. This all went well however obviously I lost visibility to half of the LAN cards and on my 1st partition I had to reconfigure which card it used. Everything actually looks fine and its on the network however I have the following lan devices under /dev lan0 lan1 lan2 lan3 however the actual lanscan devices are lan5 6 7 and 8. I am unsure how its all working but it is. Should I do an rmsf on the files and re-create???

[Calandrello]

friend
execute insf -I it anger to re-create the special archive.

[Coolmar]

I would run insf -e and it will recreate them for you.

[Adam Noble]

Thats the problem the insf -e command is not creating them!!!

[Roland Piette]

Hi Adam,

I suggest to remove first the special file, with -H option, after identifying the path of the NIC card. (lanscan will show it).

rmsf -H

then recreate the special file with the same -H option.

insf -H

Good luck,
Roland

[DCE]

Roland is correct - removing with the rmsf and recreating with insf should take of the issue

[spex]

Hi,

I wonder if a simple 'mv /dev/lan5 /dev/lan0', 'mv /dev/lan6 /dev/lan1', etc. would work. Perhaps someone else could comment on this.

PCS

[Adam Noble]

thanks everyone but a re-boot to install some other software seemed to do the trick they were created on boot.