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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!news.netmbx.de!zrz.tu-berlin.de!math.fu-berlin.de!unidui!du9ds3!veit From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) Subject: Re: 386BSD 0.1 & Com ports References: <sxjcb.37.711773132@skyfire.uacn.alaska.edu> Date: 22 Jul 92 12:28:42 GMT Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung Keywords: com tip ttys remote Sender: @unidui.uni-duisburg.de Message-ID: <veit.711808122@du9ds3> Lines: 48 In <sxjcb.37.711773132@skyfire.uacn.alaska.edu> sxjcb@skyfire.uacn.alaska.edu (Jay C. Beavers) writes: >I've been trying to use tip to talk to both a line driver or a modem on com2 >and I've had no end of trouble. My hardware setup worked under Dos and >worked using the TinyBSD boot disk and basic distribution on the hard drive, >but once I loaded BIN01, trouble started. ># tip com2 >lock open: No such file or directory >all ports busy >/etc/remote contains: >com2:dv=/dev/com2:br#9600: >/etc/ttys contains: >#com02 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" unknown off secure >com02 none unknown off secure >(I've tried this with the first line uncommented and with a status of on) >ls -la /var/spool/lock/* contains nothing >cat /var/log/aculog shows blank >/dev/com2 has rw for root which I've tried this under. >I've read as much as I can find in Managing UUCP & Usenet by ORA which has >fairly extensive coverage of com ports under 4.3BSD and nothing there has >helped. I've even created /usr/spool/locks just on the off chance that that >would help. I could find no acucntrl or uugetty on the distribution. >So, what am I missing, and can anyone help? > - jcb >______________________________________________________________________________ > | >Jay C. Beavers | sxjcb@orca.alaska.edu >University of Alaska Computer Network | sxjcb@alaska.bitnet >______________________________________|_______________________________________ Did you change com02 to com2 in /etc/ttys? Just an idea, at least one that worked for me when connecting a terminal to com2 first failed. Holger -- | | / Holger Veit | INTERNET: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de |__| / University of Duisburg | BITNET: veit%du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de@UNIDO | | / Dept. of Electr. Eng. | "No, my programs are not BUGGY, these are | |/ Inst. f. Dataprocessing | just unexpected FEATURES"