From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 7 21:23:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA04111 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 21:23:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA04101 for ; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 21:23:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA00488; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 21:23:16 -0700 Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 21:23:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Sandip Srivastava cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: General questions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Sandip Srivastava wrote: > When I run seyon, it can't find my port or modem. What could be wrong? > My serial ports do get detected by the kernel when the computer boots. I > also have the file /dev/cua0. My internal modem is on com1 irq4. My > modem gets detected when I run seyon under Linux. the correct file should be /dev/cuaa0. Is sio0 probed correctly during bootup? Check out 'dmesg' for the boot messages. > How do I create a new boot floppy with my newly compiled kernel? Why would you want to? It's not very easy. > How do I run the "Live File System" that comes on disc 2 of the FreeBSD > 2.1 cd-rom set? Place it in your CD drive and type 'mount_cd9660 /dev/cd0 /mnt', replacing /dev/cd0 with the proper device (/dev/wcd0 for IDE cds, etc.). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major