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From: ferg@88open.org (John Ferguson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: cant' use COM4 already recompiled kernel
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Date: 16 Apr 93 15:28:53 GMT
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In article <1qlcqrINN1k2@harpo.uccs.edu> jmward@elbert.uccs.edu (Joel M. Ward) writes:
>
>	I finally got my system to recognze COM4 after rebuilding the
>kernel.  But whwn i look in /dev. i ssee com1 & com2, but no com4!!
>I tried running MAKEDEV com4, but it makes com04...
>	Here's the story in more detail:
>
>I started with the system sources patched up to 0.2.2 (the ones at
>bsd386.first.gmd.de)
>
>I added a line in isa.h that said #define IO_COM4 0x2e8  (whick i know
>is the right address)
>I then copied GENERIC_ISA to XERXES (the name of my system) and added
>a new line for com4 that was exactly like the others except it uses irq 2
>(this is also the right irq, & i changed it to avoid irq comfilcts)
>
>Then i ran 'config XERXES'
>Then i ran 'make depend'
>Then i ran 'make'
>Then i copied 386bsd to /
>Then i rebooted
>
>So now, when it boots up, it recognizes com4!  I was so happy until i 
>tried to use it :)  I can't figure out how, since there is no /dev/com4!
>What's going on?  am i being totally stupid??
>
>--
>     ++Joel;

Just change /dev/com04 to /dev/com4.  MAKEDEV should do the right thing
with the mknod major and minor numbers; it just names it differently.  Or,
better yet, change MAKEDEV ;-)

   ferg
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