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Date:      Sun, 02 Apr 2000 17:44:33 -0700
From:      Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>
To:        Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Serial->serial connection (sio0 -> sio1)
Message-ID:  <38E7E971.162B7763@gorean.org>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004011859490.310-100000@thelab.hub.org> <38E6E5EA.22A1038F@gorean.org> <8c7bgc$umu$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>

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Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> 
> Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org> 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.

	It's been that way for quite a while. In a discussion about it this week
on the -questions list someone narrowed it down to a problem with clocal
not being properly set. You can demonstrate it by booting without a serial
console (no -P in /boot.config, no kernel options, etc.) and then try to
get a tty on that line.

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."


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