help! com device deleted!

[Kuruvilla Chandy]

Hi,

Ok, to prove to myself that I am a newbie, I managed to delete my /dev/cua1
file. Don't ask me how or why, please save me the humiliation:-(
I need to know how to remake a new /dev/cua1 file, any suggestions? I
thought rebooting would restore it, but no luck. Is there any way I can
autoprobe it back into existance? If not then I guess I'll have to do it
manually, but then I don't know what hardware settings to give it. I am
using a pentium 166, redhat 5.1 kernel 2.0.34.

thanks
Ishaaq Chandy