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From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey)
Subject: Re: [NetBSD]  Slattach problems.
In-Reply-To: sander@edsi.plexus.COM's message of Tue, 13 Jul 1993 19:11:41 GMT
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Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice
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References: <1993Jul13.191141.5981@edsi.plexus.COM>
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1993 17:53:50 GMT

>>>>> In article <1993Jul13.191141.5981@edsi.plexus.COM>, sander@edsi.plexus.COM (Scott Anderson) writes:

Scott> I have a 486dx33 with 2 com ports. (com0 and com1).  Com0 is a mouse.
Scott> Com1 is a serial port that can act as a serial terminal just fine (19200
Scott> 7N1 worked just fine)  Now when I try to set up a slattach on the port to
Scott> set up a slip connection I get a device not configured error.  I'm
Scott> confused, if the port is working, how can it NOT be configured?  The
Scott> error message is like innaproprite TIOGCTL (I'm not sure, but this is close)


did you put

pseudo-device	sl	2

in your kernel config file?  If not, you don't have the slip driver
linked into your kernel and you'll get a 'device not configured' error
message.  Rich