[PLUG] yikes. Deleted my /dev/ttyS1

[Ed Stokes <estokes@CritPath.Org>]

I feel perfectly twitty about this.  My exact mistake was:

	ln -sf /dev/modem /dev/ttyS1

... with the intention of making a symlink called "/dev/modem".  Now I have a symlink called ttyS1 instead of the device.  How do I recover ttyS1 ?

Notes:

1) yes the correct syntax "ln [-fns] source_file target" I know this thanks

2) as you might've guess by now, my modem would like to be on ttyS1

3) ATT WorldNet "Bare Bones" PC with an AMD K6 CPU (I think) 466Mhz (I think)

4) Mandrake 7.0

5) I think I've read about this problem before either here or in Linux Gazette, but if so I cannot find it again.

Incidentally, upgrading Mandrake to 7.0 -- my lazy way of upgrading XFree86 to 3.3.6 -- unsquashed my X display.
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estokes@critpath.org





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