Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 15:04:01 -0500 (CDT) From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Cc: peter@nmti.com, bde@zeta.org.au, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gritching about serial port naming, plus Digiboard driver Q... Message-ID: <9508312004.AA20121@sonic.nmti.com.nmti.com> In-Reply-To: <199508310720.CAA06311@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Aug 31, 95 02:20:22 am
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> As it is I find it rather disconcerting that if I have a BB2016 in addition > to the 4 internal serial ports, the BB ports are "sio4-19" and the tty names > are correspondingly screwed. You could do what DEC does and have device names that have no relation to the minor numbers. That would waste fewer minors, too. I like the upper-lower distinction for dialin/dialout ports, myself, and it makes things nice for PS and friends. It's not like anyone's going to run on an ASR-33 or adm-3a without a lowercase ROM and get \ in the output... > > > Is there anyone else besides me who is looking at putting lots of serial > > > ports on a BSD box, by the way? > > Funny you should mention that. I'm trying to move our current modems (on three > > boxes running two versions of System V) to a FreeBSD box. > Any luck? :-) Waiting for an Adaptec 1542 (it's an old ISA machine I'm rehabbing) so I can start the install. I have three Digiboard PC/8e cards I want to use. Do I need to install 2.1-STABLE to track the digiboard drivers or can I stick the new drivers in 2.0.5 (this has a bearing on whether I spend a day downloading stuff over our firewall and pissing everone off because it's a PPP link).
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