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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!mcsun!ieunet!news.ieunet.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: HELP - COM port/FreeBSD Date: 06 Nov 1993 21:05:08 GMT Organization: Lotus Development Ireland Lines: 24 Distribution: world Message-ID: <JKH.93Nov6130508@whisker.lotus.ie> References: <2be8f1$m1m@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: whisker.lotus.ie In-reply-to: penney@cl-next4.cl.msu.edu's message of 5 Nov 1993 19:10:25 GMT In article <2be8f1$m1m@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> penney@cl-next4.cl.msu.edu (Chris Penney) writes: com1:dv=/dev/tty00:br#38400 com2:dv=/dev/tty01:br#38400 to /etc/remote and tried using tip to access them. It sat for a minute then came back with a link down. I then looked at /dev/tty0? and they stty -f /dev/tty00 clocal Will solve the hanging problem (they're waiting for carrier from a non-existant modem). were using major number 23 and I though they were supposed to use 8. I ran "MAKEDEV com1" and then "MAKEDEV com2" and it recreated /dev/tty0? using major number 8 (I didn't change the MAKEDEV script). Now when I WRONG. Now you've hosed yourself. Go back and do a `MAKEDEV sio0 sio1'. Jordan -- (Jordan K. Hubbard) jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, jkh@al.org, jkh@whisker.lotus.ie I do not speak for Lotus, nor am I even a Lotus employee. I am an independent contractor.