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Re: How to sdd serial dev ttyS1



Thanks sandip.Now i am able work with serial portSandip,one more query,how
we can identify the minor no and major no for particular device like for
paralell prt and usb port.
Rgds,
suba.

Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:

> Try this as root
>
> first find out the major and minor numbers of /dev/ttyS0 by doing
>   ls -l /dev/ttyS0
>
> you will see something like this
>
> crw-rw----    1 root     uucp       4,  64 Jul  7 21:36 /dev/ttyS0
>
> here 4 is the major number and 64 the minor number of the device
> so 64+1=65 "should" be the minor number of /dev/ttyS1
>
> run this command(as root)
>
>          mknod /dev/ttyS1 c 4 65
>
> you should get /dev/ttyS1 back
>
> - Sandip
>
> On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 02:12:21PM +0530, subashini.P merrily said:
> > Hi ,
> >   I have deleted ttyS1 from the device list unfortunately.Now i want
> > toconnect serial mouse in com2 port under linux.How to add the ttyS1
> > again,using command.
>
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