The device you are trying to access doesn't exist, or the drivers for this device aren't loaded. This can occur if you refer to a file in /dev that has no driver loaded for it, or when loading a driver if no hardware exists.
It is also quite common to see this under linux if you try to load a device driver and the driver can't find the corresponding hardware (for example, you've given the driver the wrong options).
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