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From: wOOwOO <woowoo@mark.petra.ac.id>
To: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
cc: Gary Chrysler <tcg@ime.net>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Adding ttyv? devices.
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On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Nadav Eiron wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Gary Chrysler wrote:
> 
> > Hi all.
> > 
> > I've been searching/reading archives/FAQ's and as far as I can tell
> > MAXCONS is 12 by default (LINT), So to add ttyv[4-11] should be:
> > 	% ./MAKEDEV ttyv4
> > It returns:
> > 	ttyv4 - no such device name
> > 
> > and add em to /etc/ttys
> > 
> > What am I missing here.
> I guess you can't be blamed, because this is really confusing.
> You should do ./MAKEDEV vty4
> 
> Look in MAKEDEV for such things...

yeah .. the devices were succesfully created, but how to make its active 
(pressing alt-f5, alt-f6, etc.) ?

I tried to add in /etc/ttys

But got error from kernel ... ttyv? not configured ...

thanks for your help :)

Agustinus