From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jun 25 15:33:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA11973 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 15:33:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA11714 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 15:31:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca [204.244.186.218] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #4) id 0ypKXu-0006oE-00; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 15:31:10 -0700 Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 15:31:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: Greg Lynn cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: making devices on 2.2.6... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Greg Lynn wrote: > I'm trying to make the necassary device files for my modem > (which sits on port 2) using the command "MAKEDEV ttyd2" but > it doesn't happen. The time stamps are the same as before > on the dial-in, dial-out and locking devices. How might I I don't understand. If you can see timestamps, the device must already exist. Which is to be expected, as all FreeBSD systems have ttyd2 by default. So what are you trying to do? > perform this action and test the port? Also, shouldn't there > be a symlink from modem -> /dev/cua0? ? Only if you want to use /dev/modem instead of /dev/cuaa0 And that would only make sense if your modem is on COM1. > -Greg > > ----------------------------------------- > Greg Lynn Virginia VIEW > 205 West Roanoke > (540) 231-7571 > URL: vaview.vavu.vt.edu > WORK EMAIL: dglynn@vaview5.vavu.vt.edu Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message