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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Can't access serial ports on laptop
Date: 29 Oct 1995 17:44:45 +0100
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Casper Boden-Cummins  <casper@wollery.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>I think echo and cat also claim that the port cannot be opened.

Hmm, perhaps they are missing a "carrier".  Can you stty the ports?

	stty -a -f /dev/cuaa0

or

	stty -a -f /dev/ttyd0

>It may be significant that the laptop has a PCI architecture.

Certainly not.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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