LinuxQuestions.org - /dev/tun not working after a kernel upgrade

Hello,

I just upgraded to kernel 2.6.15 on slackware 11.0 and now after I try running openvpn I get a:

Code:

Sat Feb 24 23:18:33 2007 Note: Cannot open TUN/TAP dev /dev/net/tun: No such device (errno=19)

Sat Feb 24 23:18:33 2007 Note: Attempting fallback to kernel 2.2 TUN/TAP interface

Sat Feb 24 23:18:33 2007 Cannot allocate TUN/TAP dev dynamically

Sat Feb 24 23:18:33 2007 Exiting

Here's my kernel config file where tunnelling is specified

Code:

CONFIG_INET_AH=y

CONFIG_INET_ESP=y

CONFIG_INET_IPCOMP=y

CONFIG_INET_TUNNEL=y

CONFIG_INET_DIAG=y

CONFIG_INET_TCP_DIAG=y

Also, I don't have a tun directory in /dev. So I created one using mkdir and then did a mknod /dev/net/tun c 10 200 ,
but that doesn't work either.

Where should I start looking next.
Any help is gladly appreciated

TIA