From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 3 08:12:02 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4D4516A51D for ; Sun, 3 Jun 2007 08:12:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr7.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr7.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FC2913C45A for ; Sun, 3 Jun 2007 08:12:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr7.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l538C0Hr028304; Sun, 3 Jun 2007 10:12:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6C821B820; Sun, 3 Jun 2007 10:12:00 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 10:12:00 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: Tim Judd Message-ID: <20070603081200.GA49781@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Tim Judd , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <778301.53413.qm@web62412.mail.re1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <778301.53413.qm@web62412.mail.re1.yahoo.com> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: COM1 problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 08:12:02 -0000 --BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 01:01:38AM -0700, Tim Judd wrote: > I'm subscribed to the digest, everyone -- send CC me on every reply > please... >=20 > Hi there, new installation, 6.2-STABLE. >=20 > I have a Belkin UPS on COM1 and sysutils/nut is trying to talk with it. > I know it talks with it, because it has in the past. The problem I'm > getting is that NUT is just filling the screen with errors, tty > overflows, and various problems related to communication on that port > with the UPS. >=20 > Looking at NUT's website, they say the UPS communicates at 2400 baud > 8N1 and I'd like to believe that. I tested without specifying a speed: > # tip com1 > and didn't get anything.. waited 30 seconds or so. After reading > NUT's website, I tried: > # tip -2400 com1 > and got binary data (not readable information, but data none-the-less). >=20 > The kernel reports the port as sio0, but sio0 doesn't exist in /dev > the only serial port I see is cuad0{,.init,.lock} and that seems to be > hard-coded by some init script (but I don't know where). cuad* also is > said to be a dialout line, not a generic com device. /etc/remote does > indicate it is a generic device in the sense it will just pass > input/output... Look at sio(8), under FILES; the callin ports at /dev/ttyd?. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGYnfQEnfvsMMhpyURAtjSAJ4pXLCuXh6kvgjyY76aq3NneGlFIQCgsB4j 4Nb30H7HFCXR6zEHGpeRKuE= =ljLY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl--