From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 6 0:52:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC06837BA66 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 00:52:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA29286; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 00:50:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <38EC41DB.5735DA55@gorean.org> Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 00:50:51 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0325 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Karl Pielorz Cc: Christian Weisgerber , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Serial->serial connection (sio0 -> sio1) References: <38E6E5EA.22A1038F@gorean.org> <8c7bgc$umu$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <38E75E14.2E0A7BF1@tdx.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Karl Pielorz wrote: > > Christian Weisgerber wrote: > > > > Doug Barton wrote: > > > > > There is a weird problem with the serial code in ttys. You have to boot > > > with a comconsole before the tty will appear. > > > > Since when? This is absurd and I haven't observed it yet. > > I've seen something that could, possibly be 'similar'... If I use 'ttyd0' as a > terminal in /etc/ttys - it doesn't work (or, rather - It does "appear" to work > once I have COMCONSOLE selected)... > > _BUT_ if I use 'cuaa0' in /etc/ttys - I get a working terminal on COM1 - > regardless... > > Maybe ttydX is more sensitive about handshaking / carrier detect or something? > > I'm not too clued up on the 'dialin' vs. 'dialout' tty/cuaa thing... Just seen > something similar to the above... :) The problem with this is that the cuaa device doesn't handle the problem of syslog writing to the console and to the terminal at the same time (after all, that's what the tty device is designed to handle). Errr... don't ask me how I know this... Doug -- "So, the cows were part of a dream that dreamed itself into existence? Is that possible?" asked the student incredulously. The master simply replied, "Mu." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message