Hello, On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:25:47 +0100, Peter Risdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Carlos A. Carnero Delgado wrote: > > > > I have a little program , linux native, that I've managed to run > > thanks to the Linux compat layer. However, this program opens > > the serial port ttyS1, which doesn't exist as such in 5.2.1. > > > > The question is this: how do I make this program to open the > > serial port? (FYI, the device it should open is a random number > > generator.) > > This is a complete guess, but I'm curious whether it would work: > > You can make links in the /dev directory to existing devices by using > entries in /etc/devfs.conf, so in this case you could add a line like: > > link cuaa1 ttyS1 > > This works fine with FreeBSD native applications, so I use links like > this for my old serial port palm base, and for a cdrom link. Whether > it would work with Linux compatibility stuff, I don't know. But, as I > said, I'd be interested to find out. >
Perfect, that worked out OK. However, I'm getting this every second in the system log: kernel: sio1: 960 more tty-level buffer overflows (total 126252) Have any idea about this? Best regards, Carlos. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"