From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Aug 20 9:44:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B833737B42C for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 09:44:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tao.thought.org (tao.sea.tera.com [207.108.223.55]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA07434; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 09:45:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.9.3/8.7.3) id JAA41860; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 09:44:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 09:44:49 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Brian Somers Cc: Gary Kline , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bad /dev/cuaa1?? Message-ID: <20000820094449.B41415@tao.thought.org> References: <200008201202.e7KC2Wh03848@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200008201202.e7KC2Wh03848@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>; from brian@Awfulhak.org on Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 01:02:32PM +0100 X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 01:02:32PM +0100, Brian Somers wrote: > > > > This is rather bizarre. I have two virtually identical USR modems; > > I also have vitually identical ppp and tip and cu setup--I just > > copied over tarballs from this system to sage.thought.org. > > > > According to ppp: > > > > Warning: deflink: /dev/cuaa1: Bad file descriptor > > Sounds like the device wasn't probed properly. Check out your dmesg > output. > Yup; that lead to checking my BIOS and to the discovery --thanks to Sean O'Connell here whose eyesight is much better than mine--that my COM2 port was set to COM3. At any rate, things work ... . gary > -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message