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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!news.ucdavis.edu!othello.ucdavis.edu!ccjason From: ccjason@othello.ucdavis.edu (Jason Gabler) Subject: Re: FreeBSD 1.0 GAMMA problems... /bin/cat and /dev/sio* Message-ID: <CEG1Et.MCI@ucdavis.edu> Keywords: FreeBSD sio problems Sender: usenet@ucdavis.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of California, Davis References: <bryan.749415602@fegmania.wustl.edu> Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1993 21:37:40 GMT Lines: 39 In article <bryan.749415602@fegmania.wustl.edu> bryan@fegmania.wustl.edu writes: > >Hi! > >I tried installing FreeBSD 1.0-GAMMA last night. I ran into the following >problems and would appreciate any help. (If these are FAQs, please point >me to the FAQ... I have looked). > > 1. /bin/cat keeps disappearing. At first I thought it was a cruel > joke. After each extract, /bin/cat would disappear. I ended up > copying it off the cpio floppy and extracting the savesets > manually. What's the deal? Am I doing something wrong? I dont know :( > > 2. I can't get the serial ports to work. I MAKEDEV'd sio01 and sio02 > and tried to use tip and cu. They will connect and then give me > Input/Output errors and die. Am I doing something wrong? > I fiddled with /etc/remote and added entries for sio01 and sio02. > stty -f /dev/sio01 clocal I put in my rc.local to configure the serial port. It takes local modem control off the devices. Try that. Vale, jase .,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,. `Jason Gabler Wide Area Info Sys Support ` 'Distributed Computing Analysis & Support X Windows Programming & Support ' `Information Technoloy Irc Administrator ` 'UCDavis. Davis, California, USA jygabler@ucdavis.edu 916-752-2951' `'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`