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+====== mkdev for sensors-detect ======
+After installing the //lm-sensors// package it's usually good to probe available sensors unless those supported by the motherboard are already known. However, in Dapper (8.04) the user will get the following error
+<code>
+$ sensors-detect
+No i2c device files found. Use prog/mkdev/mkdev.sh to create them.
+</code>
+and that mkdev.sh or similar is nowhere to be found. Here's a script that will do what needs to be done:
+<code bash>
+#!/bin/bash
+# Here you can set several defaults.
+# The number of devices to create (max: 256)
+NUMBER=32
+# The owner and group of the devices
+OUSER=root
+OGROUP=root
+# The mode of the devices
+MODE=600
+# This script doesn't need to be run if devfs is used
+if [ -r /proc/mounts ] ; then
+ if grep -q "/dev devfs" /proc/mounts ; then
+  echo "You do not need to run this script as devfs is used."
+  exit;
+ fi
+fi
+i=0;
+while [ $i -lt $NUMBER ] ; do
+ echo /dev/i2c-$i
+ mknod -m $MODE /dev/i2c-$i c 89 $i || exit
+ chown "$OUSER:$OGROUP" /dev/i2c-$i || exit
+ i=$[$i + 1]
+done
+#end of file
+</code>
+Copypaste that to your favorite editor, save as mki2cdev.sh, give it execution bits
+<code>
+chmod a+x mki2cdev.sh
+</code>
+and run it once as root
+<code>
+sudo ./mki2cdev.sh
+</code>
+and continue with //sensors-detect//. That error should finally be gone and sensors detected as wanted.

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