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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!caen!msunews!netnews.upenn.edu!ssc.sas.upenn.edu!awhite From: awhite@ssc.sas.upenn.edu (Andrew White) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Mouse problem in FreeBSD 2.0/XFree86 3.1 Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.questions Date: 24 Jan 1995 20:55:30 GMT Organization: Social Science Computing, University of Pennsylvania Lines: 19 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3g3pg2$b5k@netnews.upenn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ssc.sas.upenn.edu Summary: no com devices Hello, net.world. I am having a bit of trouble getting XFree86 to find my mouse, and the FAQ didn't seem to help. I have a serial Microsoft 2-button mouse plugged into COM1 of my machine. The mouse works fine under DOS. However, after I installed FreeBSD 2.0, there is no device file /dev/com0, /dev/com1, /dev/sio0, or /dev/sio1 even though the machine in question does have two functioning serial ports (COM1 and COM2). What do I do to create the device special files /dev/com0 and /dev/com1? Or am I barking up the wrong tree? Any help would be greatly appreciated. -andrew