From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 13 13:18:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mercenary.vntech.com (mercenary.vntech.com [206.147.237.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2360D14FF2 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 13:17:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pezzy@vntech.com) Received: from localhost (pezzy@localhost) by mercenary.vntech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA25786; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 15:17:21 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from pezzy@vntech.com) Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 15:17:21 -0500 (CDT) From: Patrick Walentiny To: "David J. Clark" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Configuring serial ports In-Reply-To: <378B8D32.22B16990@lmco.com> 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 Hey there, If you are using COM1 then you should not use either. try port /dev/sio0 (in freebsd). If you are using another operating system (which looks to me is linux) you would need to either use /dev/cuaa0 or /dev/ttyS0. That is unless I am missing some more important piece of data I am not understanding. Good luck, Patrick. On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, David J. Clark wrote: > Hello, > > I am currently working on an internal barcodeing project that > involves reading data from COM1 and using perl and tn3270 to send data > to a mainframe. I have an intermec rf controller connected to com1 > through a null modem cable. All I want to do is read data from the rf > controller - which device do i use /dev/cuaa1 or /dev/ttyd1 ? If the > case is /dev/ttyd1 does anyone have any ideas what I would put in > /etc/ttys. Also is there any way to test the connection from bsd - ie > there is something there. Thanks for all your help > > > D. Clark > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message