ttyS0 help mee

hi, i recently posted a msg saying that my ipaq couldnt connect because i didnt have ttyS0 and thats what it was trying to connect to using a mull serial cable... so a guy told me to try

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mknod /dev/ttyS0 c 4 64

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and it made a file but i noticed the rest of ttyS1 and ttyS2 have a arrow pointing away from themselves in the icon and this one doesnt....i am assuming that that means the ttyS1 and S2 are links and this one isnt how do i fix this or is this correct??

depends on what ttyS1 and ttyS2 are pointing to. ttyS0 is correct though, sometimes distributions will change some of the devices around for some reason or another.

how can u tell what they are pointing to???

Run "ls -l /dev/ttyS[0-9]"

ok i get

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crw-rw----    1 ed      tty        4,  64 Feb 24 08:10 /dev/ttyS0

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whats this mean??

That can't be all you get. What happens if you run "ls -l /dev/ttyS1"?

ok i get

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[root@d57-6-155 ed]# ls -l /dev/ttyS1
lr-xr-xr-x    1 root    root            5 Feb 24 08:10 /dev/ttyS1 -> tts/1
[root@d57-6-155 ed]# ls -l /dev/ttyS2
lr-xr-xr-x    1 root    root            5 Feb 24 08:10 /dev/ttyS2 -> tts/2

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OK, check "ls -l /dev/tts". What distribution are you using?

i am using mandrake 9.0 beta i believe
that command just gave

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total 0
crw-r-----    1 ed      tty        4,  65 Dec 31  1969 1
crw-rw----    1 ed      tty        4,  66 Dec 31  1969 2

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They've sure set it up in a strange way (is that some sort of legacy thing?), but it doesn't matter, since it's the same thing anyway.