From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 1 09:04:02 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id JAA06771 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 1 Sep 1995 09:04:02 -0700 Received: from uuneo.neosoft.com (uuneo.NeoSoft.COM [198.64.84.252]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA06765 for ; Fri, 1 Sep 1995 09:04:00 -0700 Received: from ris1.UUCP (ficc@localhost) by uuneo.neosoft.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with UUCP id KAA08998 for freebsd.org!hackers; Fri, 1 Sep 1995 10:43:47 -0500 Received: by ris1.nmti.com (smail2.5) id AA17419; 31 Aug 95 14:37:58 CDT (Thu) Received: by sonic.nmti.com; id AA20121; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 15:04:01 -0500 From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) Message-Id: <9508312004.AA20121@sonic.nmti.com.nmti.com> Subject: Re: Gritching about serial port naming, plus Digiboard driver Q... To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 15:04:01 -0500 (CDT) Cc: peter@nmti.com, bde@zeta.org.au, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199508310720.CAA06311@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Aug 31, 95 02:20:22 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1206 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > As it is I find it rather disconcerting that if I have a BB2016 in addition > to the 4 internal serial ports, the BB ports are "sio4-19" and the tty names > are correspondingly screwed. You could do what DEC does and have device names that have no relation to the minor numbers. That would waste fewer minors, too. I like the upper-lower distinction for dialin/dialout ports, myself, and it makes things nice for PS and friends. It's not like anyone's going to run on an ASR-33 or adm-3a without a lowercase ROM and get \ in the output... > > > Is there anyone else besides me who is looking at putting lots of serial > > > ports on a BSD box, by the way? > > Funny you should mention that. I'm trying to move our current modems (on three > > boxes running two versions of System V) to a FreeBSD box. > Any luck? :-) Waiting for an Adaptec 1542 (it's an old ISA machine I'm rehabbing) so I can start the install. I have three Digiboard PC/8e cards I want to use. Do I need to install 2.1-STABLE to track the digiboard drivers or can I stick the new drivers in 2.0.5 (this has a bearing on whether I spend a day downloading stuff over our firewall and pissing everone off because it's a PPP link).