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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail 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 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <470b1t$ue@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <813970820.23536@wollery.demon.co.uk> <46akn2$gfc@uriah.heep.sax.de> <814385651.12307@wollery.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)