From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 23 04:48:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA17651 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 04:48:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from garfield.panix.com (lsmarso.dialup.access.net [166.84.254.60]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA17645 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 04:48:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from larry@localhost) by garfield.panix.com (8.8.4/8.8.3) id MAA01101; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 12:46:11 GMT Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1-alpha [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 07:43:35 -0500 (EST) From: Larry Marso To: Doug White Subject: Re: Modems Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Ronald Wright , Doug White Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Actually, there is an outright BUG in the boot floppy, such that whatever serial port you select, when you drop to term you're talking to /dev/cuaa0. You point to the right solution, Doug. You need to set device /dev/cuaa?, where ? = the serial port you want. Actually, you don't need to move your modem to COM1 or COM2. I installed attached to COM3 (/dev/cuaa2). On 23-Jan-97 Doug White wrote: >On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Ronald Wright wrote: >Unless you modify sio1 in UserConfig (-c) to com4's settings, you will >need to move your modem to COM1 or COM2 for FreeBSD's boot floppy to see >it. You can fix it once your rebuild your kernel. > >You might try issuing the command 'set device /dev/cuaa1' before dropping >to 'term' -- ppp has been known to get the wrong serial port. > >Doug White | University of Oregon >Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant >http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > ---------------------------------- Larry Marso date: 23-Jan-97 Time: 07:43:36