Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:43:29 -0400 From: "Carlos A. Carnero Delgado" <carloscarnero@gmail.com> To: Peter Risdon <peter@circlesquared.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux program and serial port (5.2.1) Message-ID: <2cbf87d04092407437c9d46ff@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4153E81B.9090700@circlesquared.com> References: <2cbf87d04092319454ae9307e@mail.gmail.com> <4153E81B.9090700@circlesquared.com>
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Hello, On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:25:47 +0100, Peter Risdon <peter@circlesquared.com> 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.
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