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From: alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD sio driver bug
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References: <CFuIIC.70w.1@cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 23:25:03 GMT
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In article <CFuIIC.70w.1@cs.cmu.edu> cline+@cs.cmu.edu (Kenneth Cline) writes:
>I just installed FreeBSD-1.0 (epsilon) binaries and kernel sources on
>top of my 386BSD filesystem, and then ran MAKEDEV to create /dev/tty01
>which is connected to my modem.

Are you able to use a modem?  It is claimed that
MAKEDEV sio makes different devices  than MAKEDEV tty
and than MAKEDEV sio is the one to use.