From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 27 11:43:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (cfedde.dsl.frii.net [216.17.139.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8C3C37B422 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 11:43:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f3RIgUE41600; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 12:42:30 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200104271842.f3RIgUE41600@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Angelin Lazarov Lalev Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No more than 32 com ports on freebsd system? In-Reply-To: <3AE9A58D.3020502@uni-svishtov.bg> From: Chris Fedde Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 12:42:30 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 27 Apr 2001 19:59:57 +0300 Angelin Lazarov Lalev wrote: +------------------ | 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 ? +------------------ 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 -- Chris Fedde To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message