Need help with spontaneous failure

[Net Llama!]

This is really well outside the scope of this mailing list....

tty support is something that is traditionally compiled into the kernel.
In some very rare cases, its a module, but not with any Linux distro that
i've ever encountered.  So, this is a kernel issue.  If you didn't change
it, then you need to figure out who did, cause kernel's don't change
themselves.

On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Brad Cox wrote:

> At 9:35 AM -0400 7/23/02, Net Llama! wrote:
> >On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Brad Cox wrote:
> >char-major-4 are the virtual consoles.  Sounds like your box is trashed
> >pretty badly.  Did you delete/change anything lately?  You sure you
> >haven't been haxored?
>
> Nope, didn't delete/change anything, and this is a home system
> (modem-based) behind a NAT firewall.
>
> Question is, if its broke, how to fix it? I have the install CDs but
> definitely don't want to install from scratch.
>

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