From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 4 14:31:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA13719 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 4 Nov 1997 14:31:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA13709 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 1997 14:31:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA29990; Tue, 4 Nov 1997 14:31:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 14:31:28 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Andrew cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sola510 ups - problems compiling In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Andrew wrote: > I mailed the support mob at support@bestpower.com and someone mailed back > to me saying that they now have bsdi support and I should download it from > www.bestpower.com > > I did this and have had a bit of a play but so far no luck. Would com1 be > /dev/ttyd0 ? If so either my com port is faulty or bsdi support is not the > same as FreeBSD support. They provide the source code on their "free > software" download thingo so I guess they can't be too worried about > people looking at it so if anyone is interested I'll send it as well. the dialout serial port is usually referred to as /dev/cuaa0. ttyd0 isthe dialin port. > Is there an easy way to test my com port? The only way I know is to > install XFree86 and see if the mouse works. That or try cu with a modem. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major