From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 17 05:11:32 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD15F16A4B3 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 05:11:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp015.mail.yahoo.com (smtp015.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.59]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4245243F85 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 05:11:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from q_dolan@yahoo.com.au) Received: from q.onthenet.com.au (HELO ?192.168.100.154?) (q?dolan@203.10.89.214 with plain) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 17 Oct 2003 12:11:30 -0000 From: Q To: Perica Veljanovski In-Reply-To: <20031017135828.73CF.FREEBSD@euro.net.mk> References: <20031017135828.73CF.FREEBSD@euro.net.mk> Message-Id: <1066392677.12053.6.camel@boxster.onthenet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 22:11:18 +1000 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: perl serial port access X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 12:11:33 -0000 On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 22:01, Perica Veljanovski wrote: > What is the name of the /dev for the serial port in FreeBSD. dmesg says > there are sio0 and sio1 but there are no such file names in /dev. The device name you are looking for is /dev/cuaa* > What module should I use in Perl to access (read/write strings) to the > serial port? Try this in the ports collection: comms/p5-Device-SerialPort Seeya...Q