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Date:      Fri, 27 Apr 2001 12:42:30 -0600
From:      Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us>
To:        Angelin Lazarov Lalev <alalev@uni-svishtov.bg>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: No more than 32 com ports on freebsd system? 
Message-ID:  <200104271842.f3RIgUE41600@fedde.littleton.co.us>
In-Reply-To: <3AE9A58D.3020502@uni-svishtov.bg> 

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On Fri, 27 Apr 2001 19:59:57 +0300  Angelin Lazarov Lalev wrote:
 +------------------
 | Hi everyone,
 | 
 | I am trying to set up a freebsd dialin server with two 16 port multicom 
 | cards.
 | I need 32 ttyd devices.
 | So I recompiled the kernel whith apropriate numer of sio devices and did
 | 
 | ./MAKEDEV ttyd4 
 | ./MAKEDEV ttyd5 
 | ....
 | ./MAKEDEV ttydv
 | 
 | No problems until here, but when I did
 | 
 | ./MAKEDEV ttydw
 | 
 | i got the following error message
 | 
 | mknod: ?:non-nummeric minor number
 | /sbin/mknod ttydw
 | 
 | ls -la /dev/ttydv shows that the minor number ot that device is 31.
 | I guess that only 32 ttyd devices are allowed by default. Is there any 
 | way to change this ?
 +------------------

The SIO driver only supports 2**5 = 32 devices.  If you want them all on
your serial cards you will have to turn off sio0 and sio1 that map to the
ports on your motherboard.

chris

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    Chris Fedde

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