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Re: [PLUG] yikes. Deleted my /dev/ttyS1
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On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, you wrote:
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> I feel perfectly twitty about this. My exact mistake was:<br><br> ln -sf
> /dev/modem /dev/ttyS1<br><br>... 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 ?<br><br>Notes:<br><br>1) yes the correct syntax "ln [-fns]
> source_file target" I know this thanks<br><br>2) as you might've guess by now,
> my modem would like to be on ttyS1<br><br>3) ATT WorldNet "Bare Bones" PC with
> an AMD K6 CPU (I think) 466Mhz (I think)<br><br>4) Mandrake 7.0<br><br>5) I
> think I've read about this problem before either here or in Linux Gazette, but
> if so I cannot find it again.<br><br>Incidentally, upgrading Mandrake to 7.0
> -- my lazy way of upgrading XFree86 to 3.3.6 -- unsquashed my X
> display.<br>--<br><a
> href="mailto:estokes@critpath.org";>estokes@critpath.org</a></pre><br></body>
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rm -f /dev/ttyS1 && mknod /dev/ttyS1 c 4 65 && ln -s /dev/ttyS1 /dev/modem
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outside"
(By Linus Torvalds)
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