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From: freyes@i-2000.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Device Name for Mouse
Date: 27 Aug 1995 12:04:35 GMT
Organization: I-2000 Inc. - Internet Services
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In <41pocf$hl7@titan.ci.ua.pt>, cooker@ci.ua.pt (Fernando Cozinheiro) writes:
>Dear friends:
>because I can't see any device called  /dev/mouse or /dev/tty00.  I have
>already tryed to make /dev/tty00, using MAKEDEV command...  but it don't
>appears. Ah, my mouse is attached to a serial port...

I think the names for com ports are cuaa0 for com1 or cuaa1 for com2.
I haven't configured ppp yet so I still read mail, news from OS2. (In other
words I can't check those codes until I re-boot  and load FreeBsd).

Let me know if those are not the right codes and I will check them for you.