On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 13:07, henry wrote:
> Dear Sirs:
>     I use "ls -l /dev/mouse" ,           I get "                5                 
>Jan 3 2002            mouse->psaux"
> There is Minor_ID (5), but no Major_ID .(it's supposed to appear in front of 
>Minor_ID(5) )
> 
> I want to link mouse to another device(say USB mouse instead of ps2 mouse ),
> But after removing the link (mouse)
> I found that I cant         "mknod  mouse  c  NULL 5 "     .(I try use NULL as 
>Major_ID,but shell said it's illeagal.)


The chances are /dev/mouse is a symlink to something like /dev/psaux or
/dev/ttyS0 etc etc.

Doing a ls -l on the real device, rather than the symlinks will show you
the correct major and minor device numbers.

HTH

Greeno
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