On Monday 09 December 2002 07:12 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: > Lorne wrote on Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 06:44:10PM -0700 : > > > /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1 > > > > Believe it or not.... they did not exist until I did a link to /dev/tty/0 > > and /1! ??? They DO exist now, but I'm concerned something is broken on > > the > > devfs autoamtically creates them for you so either: > 1) devfs is broken on your machine > 2) you configured it not to start at boot. > Devfs isn't broken. It DOES start on boot as well. Well what I had after install was /dev/tts which had a 0 and a 1 in it. I had to create the symbolic of /dev/tts0 and tts1. ?? I dunno man.
The good news is..... drum roll please..... I finally got minicom installed no thanks to Mandrakes install package. It swears that it doesn't exist along with dependencies. I had to go back to rpm -i. Boy xminicom sure looks like the old Telecom program I used to use! Procom? So now I KNOW that my serial ports are there and seen by a little terminal program. What a pain! > #2 is really two parts. passing devfs=mount to the kernel does the > first part, starting the devfsd service is the second part. > > > grep -i /var/log/dmesg ttys > > grep: ttys: No such file or directory > > Ugh, I wrote it backwards. Sorry. > Well crap!! I wasn't even paying attention to what you said and obediantly just put in what you said. doh! grep -i ttys /var/log/dmesg ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A > grep -i ttys /var/log/dmesg > > Blue skies... Todd
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