🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 25 Jan 1997, Stanislaw wrote:

> After upgrading my video and sound cards, my machine decided that Com2 is 
> obsolete. Took me two days to find that the fault is not 
> 1)on motherboard
> 2)in cables (external modem)
> 3)in modem itself
> Then I tried mouse on this port and Mouse.ini reported Serial4 (Thank you 
> DOS).
> In meantime I deleted soft links from /dev/modem to cua1; cua2; cua3
> which deleted all those files from /dev directory.
> {don't ask about backup - it's obvious}
> Question: what now?
> a) reinstall all
> b) can those files and the devices they represent be reconstructed - this 
> information is very vague in the books that I have.
> So excuse me for addressing this group through Windows but such is life.
> Stanislaw.
> 
> 
> 
Thanks to all that replied to the first posting.
"MAKEDEV update" command was not known to me and could not make MAKEDEV work.
So I consulted "Essential system administration" and it pointed in 
direction of mknod. This is manual (menial) work step by step but here I am
thanking you all through "minicom".
My Linux can speak again.
Stanislaw.