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From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: /dev/com1 on NetBSD 0.9
Date: 10 Sep 1993 04:52:30 GMT
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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In article <26oup9$aaf@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Skyler King <sky@soda.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>For some reason I don't seem to have a device driver for com 2 (/dev/com1)
>on my NetBSD 0.9 system.  The bootup sequence recognizes its existence, but
>neither make com1 or make com* will create it.  What am I doing wrong?  

It's easy:

# cd /dev
# mknod tty01 c 8 1   # 8, 0 is tty00
# ln -s tty01 com1

(YOu could just mknod com1 c 8 1, but that wouldn't fit in with
the way things come set up...)


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