High, On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
> Hi to all! > > I am in a bit trouble. I deleted the /dev/ttyS1 file. Now I can't use the > modem. The file exist in another machine (both of them run potato 2.2r4). How > can I recover the file? Is a matter of copy the file to a floppy and copy > back > in the first machine? > It is not a real file, it is a device, so it cannot be copied to a disk. You have to remake the device again. Log in as root and go to /dev. There, run './MAKEDEV ttyS1'. This will restore your serial port device. Alternatively, you can do it by hand. An 'ls -l /dev/ttyS*' will give you: crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 64 Jul 5 2000 /dev/ttyS0 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 66 Jul 5 2000 /dev/ttyS2 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 67 Jul 5 2000 /dev/ttyS3 ^ ^ ^ |character device |major and minor device number So, it looks like /dev/ttyS1 has a minor device number of 65. By hand: # mknod /dev/ttyS1 c 4 65 # chmod u+rw,g+rw,o-rwx /dev/ttyS1 # chown root.dialout /dev/ttyS1 Greetz, Sebastiaan -- NT is the OS of the future. The main engine is the 16-bit Subsystem (also called MS-DOS Subsystem). Above that, there is the windoze 95/98 16-bit Subsystem. Anyone can see that 16+16=32, so windoze NT is a *real* 32-bit system.
