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Date:      Sat, 20 Jan 2001 22:43:24 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        leclercn@videotron.ca
Cc:        freebsd-alpha <freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FIFO files: device not configured
Message-ID:  <14954.23071.555967.914243@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3A6A5558.1040300@videotron.ca>
References:  <3A6A156B.1010809@videotron.ca> <14954.13113.352982.366550@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <3A6A5558.1040300@videotron.ca>

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tcn writes:
 > > The only thing I can think of which makes any sense is that, by
 > > default, sio1 is reserved for the kernel debugger.  (This should
 > 
 >    Unfortunately, my modem is assigned to sio2 on IO_COM3, irq 5 with 
 > flags 0x20000.  I tried removing the 16550 flag but it didn't do 
 > anything.  I removed all flags from all sios and tried again with no 
 > success.  It seems like the problem does not lie in the communication 
 > ports configuration.  I suspect something else like missing sockets 
 > (since from what I understand, fifo files are sockets).

You can verify for yourself that fifos work.  Read the mkfifo(1) man
page and play with the result.  

Drew


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