From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 15 02:08:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ECE116A4CE for ; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 02:08:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gizzywump.com (adsl-207-214-111-190.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [207.214.111.190]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F115443D46 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 02:08:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kiss@healthhero.com) Received: (qmail 30704 invoked by uid 100); 15 Jun 2004 02:08:37 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Jun 2004 02:08:37 -0000 Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 19:08:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Kiss X-X-Sender: kiss@kalamalka.gizzywump.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040614190735.A30698@kalamalka.gizzywump.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: ucom* at uftdi? does not work with getty X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 02:08:41 -0000 We run a dial-up call center and are trying to find a replacement for our old Cyclades multi-port serial cards which never worked all that well. We purchased a USB to 8 serial port converter that uses an FTDI chipset from byterunner.com. The serial ports are hot-pluggable (a nice plus) and present as ucom0 through ucom7. The ports work fine with minicom and modems, but NOT with getty. The behaviour of ucomX appears to be similar to cuaaX, not ttydX -- dialing a modem attached to ucomX yields auto-answer and a connect just fine, but getty does not seem to notice that the line has been picked up and does not seem to launch the subprocess. Any insight or suggestions into getting this piece of hardware working with getty would be most helpful. (Related question: What is a canonical solution for building a FreeBSD box that has many modems attached to it?) -- Richard Kiss Health Hero Network, Inc. 2570 El Camino Real, Suite 111 Mountain View, CA 94040 650-559-1010 E-mail: kiss@healthhero.com