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[Jeremy Kolb <jkolb AT brandeis.edu>]

i don't think makedev, it's makenod or makenode and you give it a major
and minor number and it creates the appropriate device in /dev. it used
to be installed on my machine, but all of a sudden when i need it, it
isn't there and i'm not sure which package installs it, it's a standard
linux utility.

i have sysfs mounted and devfsd is running. i'll try udev and hotplug.
are they 'safe' (i've used hotplug before, but i've never heard of
udev).

Jeremy

On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 23:33, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Quoting Jeremy Kolb <jkolb AT brandeis.edu>:
> > where'd makenode go? i all of a sudden need it and it vanished. actually
> > i need it because it appears that my serial ports have vanished in the
> > 2.6 kernel (need them for my external modem).  so if anyone knows what
> > they're called now and where makenode is let me know! thanks!
> > 
> > Jeremy
> 
> Do you mean MAKEDEV? Do you have devfsd running? hotplug may help, as the 
> 2.6
> kernel now uses sysfs + udev + hotplug, though using udev probably won't fix
> your problem.
> 
> -sandalle