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From: jmarin@teeri.jmp.fi (Jukka Marin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD/amiga: How do I access my 2232?
Date: 4 Jan 1996 14:04:39 +0200
Organization: JMP-Electronics, Kuopio, Finland
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martini@heaven7.snafu.de (Martin Ibert) writes:
>Hi,
>maybe I'm a bit stupid, but I have yet to figure out how I am supposed
>to use the 7 serial ports that my 2232 serial multiport card
>provides. I have configured the device into the kernel; the dmesg
>lines are
> msc0 at zbus0 rom 0xe90000 man/pro 514/70
> msc0: Board successfully initialized.
> msc0: Normal version detected (c083:1)
>Looks good, doesn't it?
Yep.
>I have even found (in arch/amiga/amiga/conf.c) that
>the device major appears to be c/31, and (in arch/amiga/dev/msc.c) the
>scheme for generating the minor numbers. But the MAKEDEV scripts do
>not seem to support these devices.
Hm, I thought MAKEDEV had been upgraded. Oh well.. Here's what I have
on my system:
jmarin@muikku ~ %(50)ll /dev/ttym*
crw------- 1 root wheel 12, 128 Sep 13 17:05 /dev/ttym0
crw------- 1 root wheel 31, 1 Jan 4 14:01 /dev/ttym1
crw------- 1 root wheel 31, 3 Jan 4 13:20 /dev/ttym2
crw------- 1 root wheel 31, 5 Jan 4 02:47 /dev/ttym3
crw------- 1 root wheel 31, 7 Jan 4 07:00 /dev/ttym4
crw------- 1 root wheel 31, 9 Jan 4 09:49 /dev/ttym5
crw------- 1 root wheel 31, 11 Oct 5 13:09 /dev/ttym6
crw------- 1 root wheel 31, 13 Oct 5 13:09 /dev/ttym7
jmarin@muikku ~ %(51)ll /dev/tty0*
crw------- 1 root wheel 12, 0 Jan 4 14:01 /dev/tty00
crw------- 1 root wheel 31, 0 Oct 5 13:08 /dev/tty01
crw------- 1 root wheel 31, 2 Oct 5 13:08 /dev/tty02
crw------- 1 root wheel 31, 4 Oct 5 13:08 /dev/tty03
crw------- 1 root wheel 31, 6 Jan 1 01:37 /dev/tty04
crw------- 1 root wheel 31, 8 Jan 1 01:37 /dev/tty05
crw------- 1 root wheel 31, 10 Oct 5 13:09 /dev/tty06
crw------- 1 root wheel 31, 12 Oct 5 13:09 /dev/tty07
>Of course I can mknod them myself, but I'd rather not if there is a
>better documented way of doing it. Or, if I have to do it all by
>myself, I'd like to know if there is a "standard" or "proposed" way of
>naming the devices.
Use mknod for now.
Besides, I have a newer version of the driver available, but it wasn't
included in the 1.1 distribution (I don't know why). Neither has a fix
for the Hydra Ethernet driver found its way to the tree. Hrm.
-jm
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