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From: awhite@ssc.sas.upenn.edu (Andrew White)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Mouse problem in FreeBSD 2.0/XFree86 3.1
Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Date: 24 Jan 1995 20:55:30 GMT
Organization: Social Science Computing, University of Pennsylvania
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3g3pg2$b5k@netnews.upenn.edu>
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Summary: no com devices

Hello, net.world.

I am having a bit of trouble getting XFree86 to find my mouse, and the
FAQ didn't seem to help.

I have a serial Microsoft 2-button mouse plugged into COM1 of my
machine.  The mouse works fine under DOS.  However, after I installed
FreeBSD 2.0, there is no device file /dev/com0, /dev/com1, /dev/sio0,
or /dev/sio1 even though the machine in question does have two
functioning serial ports (COM1 and COM2).

What do I do to create the device special files /dev/com0 and /dev/com1?
Or am I barking up the wrong tree?  

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-andrew