From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 31 18:53:21 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id SAA20757 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 31 Jan 1995 18:53:21 -0800 Received: from vegemite.Stanford.EDU (2842@vegemite.Stanford.EDU [36.159.0.7]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA20751 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 1995 18:53:20 -0800 Received: from localhost (hlew@localhost) by vegemite.Stanford.EDU (8.6.4/8.6.4) id SAA29173; Tue, 31 Jan 1995 18:53:04 -0800 Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 18:53:04 -0800 (PST) From: Howard Lew To: Bill Allison cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Configuring modem 1.1.5.1 help! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 31 Jan 1995, Bill Allison wrote: > I am running FreeBSD 1.1.5.1, and recently got a US Robotics Sportster > 28.8 modem. I have attached it to the serial port, and have added a line > in the ttys file for ttyd0, for the modem. > > I am at a loss as to how to communicate w/ the modem, and get a "Device > not configured" error all the time from getty. I have kermit installed & > I am sure that there is some basic configuration stuff I am not doing. > > Can someone shed some light on this? > > Thanks, > Bill > I don't think you need to edit /etc/ttys if you are using the modem to dialout. Is it on the DOS equivalent of com4? If so, then I think it is /dev/cua03. Is the sio port recognized on bootup? If you don't have a /dev/cua03, try: cd /dev sh MAKEDEV cua03 Hope this helps. -= Howard =-