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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wupost!slustl!ejh From: ejh@slustl.slu.edu (Eric J. Haug) Subject: com port names on 0.0 and 0.1 Message-ID: <1992Jul22.005128.5667@slustl.slu.edu> Organization: St. Louis Univ. Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 00:51:28 GMT Lines: 12 Please be aware that the com drivers are slightly different in 0.0 and 0.1. Careful perusal of the code will show strategically placed -1's. DO NOT JUST DROP THE OLD DRIVER IN THE KERNEL AND RECOMPILE. change the system config file, reconfigure, and remake the device nodes. how? note in 0.0 com0 and com1, and in 0.1 com1 and com2. MAKEDEV in 0.1 also wants to make com00 and com01 or some such. Somebody wanted to ease the use of 0.1 and DOS users to the confusion of others. Please note that my lpt patches in unoffical on agate follow the same strange logic. eric ejh@slustl.slu.edu