Re: /dev/irda

[Chris Halls <chris.halls.list@nikocity.de>]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 05:11:37PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote:
> Um...  I've been working on this irda stuff for a while and figured out 
> one thing that I did a while back...
> 
> I think I deleted /dev/irda.
> I can't find the mknod major/minor setting to recreate it.
> 
> Can anyone look on theirs or send me a link?
No, it's not a device in the /dev directory, it's a network device:

# ls /dev/irda0
ls: /dev/irda0: No such file or directory

# ifconfig irda0
irda0     Link encap:IrLAP  HWaddr 28:0f:77:68
          UP RUNNING NOARP  MTU:2048  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:48899 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:8
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:1515809 (1.4 Mb)

# lsmod | grep ir
nsc-ircc               13592   1
irda                  142784   1  [nsc-ircc]

Chris