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From: ronald@po.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Ronald A. Braunstein)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Using com3 on a new install of 386bsd
Date: 18 Oct 1993 00:57:03 GMT
Organization: University of California, at Berkeley
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Keywords: tip com


I recently setup my system to use 386bsd.
I applied patches -2.3.

I want to use tip to access my modem in com3.
GENERICISA has entry for com3, but /dev/com3 does not exist.
I tried MAKEDEV com3, which created /dev/com03,tty03.
I then changed the /etc/remote file to use /dev/com03 instead of /dev/com3,
but when I tip to it and start typing, my machine hangs.
Am I doing something wrong?

Additionally, when the machine boots it says 
com1 at ..
com2 at ...
com3 fifo at ...

Is the fifo supposed to be there?

My machine also hung during various nroffs during the install process.
(I had to create a new nroff that didn't do anything)
Are these problems common / known?

-thanks
ronald@cory.berkeley.edu
ron@geoworks.com
(email would be appreciated)