[sshfs] failed to open /dev/fuse

[David L. <lio...@co...>]

I just installed the Debian version on an amd64 system with linux
2.6.14. I loaded the fuse module from the (vanilla) kernel, but the
/dev/fuse device node did not get created. I created it manually:

   mknod /dev/fuse c 0 0
   chown root.fuse /dev/fuse
   chmod 0666 /dev/fuse

But this does not appear to be what sshfs needs:

   $ sshfs chi:/tv4 tv4
     fusermount: failed to open /dev/fuse: No such device or address

I don't think it's a permissions issue -- same response from user root.
I'm not using udev (it thoroughly messes up my system). How do I do this
manually?

Dave