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Operating Systems Solaris Cause of NIC changes ...? Post 302255309 by vimes on Thursday 6th of November 2008 07:37:28 AM

11-06-2008

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Not sure why the system assigned them in that order, but to solve it read man path_to_inst Smilie

Quote:

/etc/path_to_inst records mappings of physical device names
to instance numbers.

The instance number of a device is encoded in its minor
number, and is the way that a device driver determines which
of the possible devices that it may drive is referred to by
a given special file.

In order to keep instance numbers persistent across reboots,
the system records them in /etc/path_to_inst.

This file is read only at boot time, and is updated by
add_drv(1M) and devfsadm(1M).

Note that it is generally not necessary for the system
administrator to change this file, as the system will main-
tain it.

The system administrator can change the assignment of
instance numbers by editing this file and doing a reconfi-
guration reboot. However, any changes made in this file will
be lost if add_drv(1M) or devfsadm(1M) is run before the
system is rebooted.

So, you can change /etc/path_to_inst, then do: touch /reconfigure; init 6.

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dummy_cs

DUMMY_CS(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual						       DUMMY_CS(4)

NAME

       dummy_cs - PCMCIA dummy device driver

SYNOPSIS

       insmod dummy_cs.o [pc_debug=n] [free_ports=n] [irq_list=i,j,...]

DESCRIPTION

       The dummy_cs module has two purposes.  It is intended as a demonstration of how to write the PCMCIA interface code for a client driver, and
       the source code is heavily commented.  It is also written to function as a sort of generic ``point enabler'': when bound to any	PCMCIA	IO
       card,  it  will read the card's Configuration Information Structure, and configure the card appropriately.  The configuration includes set-
       ting up IO and memory windows, configuring the card for interrupts, and initializing the card's PCMCIA configuration registers.

       It turns out that many cards report incomplete or inaccurate configuration information, due to vendor carelessness and  the  complexity	of
       the  data format.  A vendor driver can generally take for granted many configuration details, so there is not much incentive for vendors to
       ensure that the on-card information is complete.  Thus, the dummy_cs module is limited by its generality: since	it  makes  no  assumptions
       about card types, it is forced to rely on the card information, for better or worse.

PARAMETERS

       pc_debug=n
	      Selects  the PCMCIA debugging level.  This parameter is only available if the module is compiled with debugging enabled.	A non-zero
	      value enables debugging.

       free_ports=n
	      A flag indicating if the IO ports allocated for the card should be freed from the kernel resource maps.  This is useful if the dummy
	      driver is being used to configure a card in preparation for loading a specific PCMCIA-unaware driver.  The default is 0 (false).

       irq_list=i,j,...
	      Specifies the set of interrupts that may be allocated by this driver.

AUTHOR

       David Hinds - dahinds@users.sourceforge.net

SEE ALSO

       cardmgr(8), pcmcia(5).

pcmcia-cs							2000/06/12 21:24:47						       DUMMY_CS(4)