From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 17 3:20:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.startv.com (mail.startv.com [202.84.145.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7DC914D60 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 03:20:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@mail.startv.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by mail.startv.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA00238; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 18:16:43 +0800 (HKT) Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 18:16:43 +0800 (HKT) From: Super-User X-Sender: root@mail01 To: "Pavel V. Antipov" Cc: Terence Chan , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: where is /dev/ttyS0 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I already ran that with root.. What kind of permission do I need?? Thanks -=Terence=- On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Pavel V. Antipov wrote: > > > On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Terence Chan wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have a linux binary which will access to the serial port of the PC to collect > > data, and in the Red Hat linux box, I refer to the serial port as /dev/ttyS0. > > > > > > However, I am planning to implement the same system on FreeBSD, and I have managed > > to get the binary running. Unfortunately, I wasn't be able to locate the correct > > /dev file to access the serial ports. > > > > I have tried the followings: > > /dev/ttyd0 > > /dev/cuaa0 > > > > None of them work for me. > > > > What is the problem? Is that the binary wasn't be able to read the com port?? > > or I have referred to the wrong device? > > > > Pls Advise. > > > > Many Thanks. > > -=Terence=- > > http://www.startv.com > I think you have wrong permissions for files /dev/cuaa0 etc > please check them > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message