Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 12:42:30 -0600 From: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Angelin Lazarov Lalev <alalev@uni-svishtov.bg> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No more than 32 com ports on freebsd system? Message-ID: <200104271842.f3RIgUE41600@fedde.littleton.co.us> In-Reply-To: <3AE9A58D.3020502@uni-svishtov.bg>
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On Fri, 27 Apr 2001 19:59:57 +0300 Angelin Lazarov Lalev wrote:
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| Hi everyone,
|
| I am trying to set up a freebsd dialin server with two 16 port multicom
| cards.
| I need 32 ttyd devices.
| So I recompiled the kernel whith apropriate numer of sio devices and did
|
| ./MAKEDEV ttyd4
| ./MAKEDEV ttyd5
| ....
| ./MAKEDEV ttydv
|
| No problems until here, but when I did
|
| ./MAKEDEV ttydw
|
| i got the following error message
|
| mknod: ?:non-nummeric minor number
| /sbin/mknod ttydw
|
| ls -la /dev/ttydv shows that the minor number ot that device is 31.
| I guess that only 32 ttyd devices are allowed by default. Is there any
| way to change this ?
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The SIO driver only supports 2**5 = 32 devices. If you want them all on
your serial cards you will have to turn off sio0 and sio1 that map to the
ports on your motherboard.
chris
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