If you look at the "Device Drivers and Installation Commands" manual, you'll note that all their examples have the letters in the device numbers in lower case. So, the kernel is expecting all the device numbers you send it to be in lower case as well. All-caps is an AOL and "legacy" mainframe thing. :)
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Fuhrmann Anna Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 12:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: adding a qeth device Hi Mark, > All Linux and UNIX systems are case-sensitive, so indeed "A" is _not_ the > same as "a". This is exactly what I thought when writing "0.0.0A08". And this is what I don't understand: why echo did not accept this. I will aks dmesg. Anna ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
