devices in use !...

[nilathinesh]

hello all,

i am a newbie to linux.. and i have some basic doubts, please clarify me.. thanks in advance..

under /dev folder i could see several devices available in my embedded devices, but i couldn't find the ethernet devices there, but my device supports network, where this eth device will be! and

what will be there inside the /dev/ folder is it a device drivers or parameters for devices.

also is there any possiblities to identify the devices that are currently being used

cheers,
thinux...

[hazel]

under /dev folder i could see several devices available in my embedded devices, but i couldn't find the ethernet devices there, but my device supports network, where this eth device will be!

Rather confusingly, network devices like eth0 are treated differently! They don't have an entry in the /dev directory. You can get a listing of them by using the command ifconfig.

what will be there inside the /dev/ folder is it a device drivers or parameters for devices.

No, these are not actually drivers - the drivers in Linux are all inside the kernel. The device files are a user interface to these drivers. You can use them in many ways like real files but every time a program attempts to read from or write to one of them, an interrupt occurs and the kernel will transfer control to the appropriate driver module.

[nilathinesh]

Hello "little old lady" ,

Thanks for your reply..,

Hello all,
Is there any way to know the devices that are currently being used.. please show me a direction on identifying the devices in use.. . thanks again..