Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 10:12:00 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Tim Judd <tjudd2k@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: COM1 problems Message-ID: <20070603081200.GA49781@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <778301.53413.qm@web62412.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <778301.53413.qm@web62412.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
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On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 01:01:38AM -0700, Tim Judd wrote:
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> please...
>=20
> Hi there, new installation, 6.2-STABLE.
>=20
> I have a Belkin UPS on COM1 and sysutils/nut is trying to talk with it.
> I know it talks with it, because it has in the past. The problem I'm
> getting is that NUT is just filling the screen with errors, tty
> overflows, and various problems related to communication on that port
> with the UPS.
>=20
> Looking at NUT's website, they say the UPS communicates at 2400 baud
> 8N1 and I'd like to believe that. I tested without specifying a speed:
> # tip com1
> and didn't get anything.. waited 30 seconds or so. After reading
> NUT's website, I tried:
> # tip -2400 com1
> and got binary data (not readable information, but data none-the-less).
>=20
> The kernel reports the port as sio0, but sio0 doesn't exist in /dev
> the only serial port I see is cuad0{,.init,.lock} and that seems to be
> hard-coded by some init script (but I don't know where). cuad* also is
> said to be a dialout line, not a generic com device. /etc/remote does
> indicate it is a generic device in the sense it will just pass
> input/output...
Look at sio(8), under FILES; the callin ports at /dev/ttyd?.
Roland
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R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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