[PLUG] device sl0 missing

Charles Fultz fultz@cs.purdue.edu
27 Apr 2001 11:45:52 -0500


John Cirillo <cirillo@purdue.edu> writes:

> I'm going to try playing around with sliplogin on my serial line to my
> Commodore 128, but I realized that I seem to need a network device called sl0.
> I have slip compiled as a module, but no /dev/sl0.  Do I just make this with
> MAKEDEV or mknod, or is there a special way to acquire it?
> Anybody have experience setting up sliplogin?

I've never dealt with logins over slip, but you should just be able to
use MAKEDEV.  I don't know what the major and minor numbers for
/dev/sl0 are though.

Also, you might want to check out:
http://linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/Serial-HOWTO.html

Charles Fultz
fultz