Re: Dead parallel port (/dev messup)

kaczfan <kaczfan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:slrnebaik5.2mi.kaczfan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

Hi, I've had an unfortunate adventure today
- I have ACCIDENTALY erased all the contents
of /dev directory (don't ask :>). I have
eventually copied the whole structure from some
bootable cd and regenerated missing nodes, BUT
I have a problem with parallel port - for instance,
when I echo to /dev/parport0 or /dev/lp0, I get
a feedback:
bash: /dev/parport0: no such device
Major and minor are as in
/lib/modules/2.4.26/build/Documentation/devices.txt ie
c 6 0 for lp0 (and, as I have just found out, /dev/par0)
c 99 0 for parport0

Is it significant that there are (at least) two files
linked to the same node?

Does anyone know how to make the port work, or at
least know the reason for this state of affairs?
[it didn't require any explicit modprobes before,
was just working ok; i have tried modprobing
parport and parport_pc (without parameters), but
it doesn't seem to change anything]

Thanks in advance
Maciek

If you got your linux in a distribution, there *should* be a script that
creates the files in the /dev directory - in slackware mine is called
MKDEV and is put in that directory. check the subdirectories of the
installation cd to see if you see a tgz or rpm (depending on
distribution of course) called dev or similar. There also might be a
bunch of documents related to the install process itself in /usr/doc or
/usr/local/doc

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