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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
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Message-ID: <JKH.93Nov6130508@whisker.lotus.ie>
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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
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(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.