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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!usenet-feed.umr.edu!rbirling From: rbirling@ee.umr.edu (Robert Henry Birlingmair) Subject: Using tip on FreeBSD Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 02:04:26 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: eeclc3.ee.umr.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] Organization: University of Missouri-Rolla, Missouri's Technological University Sender: cnews@umr.edu (UMR Usenet News Administration) Message-ID: <1994Mar24.020426.13619@umr.edu> Lines: 21 I have just installed the latest FreeBSD binaries on my 486DX2 system. I have a supra 14.4k internal modem setup as DOS COM2. My question is, how do I set up tip and/or the special device files to work? If I do a cold boot, FreeBSD finds sio00 and sio01. In the /dev directory, as root I have run MAKEDEV sio1 which updates the tty01 special file. I set up the /etc/remote file to use /dev/tty01. But when I use tip, it waits for a few seconds and then says "link down" and exits. The modem never tries to dial. In the FAQ it says to set up tip for com01, but I have no /dev/com01 file and using MAKEDEV com1 just sets the tty01 files so that it doesn't work at all. I have changed the owner of tty01 to uucp.dialer. One other strang thing is that if I type reboot instead of cold booting with the reset button, FreeBSD reports sio01 not found. What am I missing? Thanks. Bob Birlingmair rbirling@ee.umr.edu University of Missouri - Rolla