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From: "Amancio Hasty, Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Mouse device... Where is it?
Date: 30 Aug 1995 03:28:12 GMT
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cooker@ci.ua.pt (Fernando Cozinheiro) wrote:
>I have posted this question  several days ago, but I've not received any
>answer till now...  I can't found the device name for my mouse...  It is
>on COM1:  (serial port), and FreeBSD  detects the presence of two serial
>ports, as you can see...
>
>	sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa
>	sio0: type 16450
>	sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa
>	sio1: type 16450
>	sio2 not found at 0x3e8
>	sio3 not found at 0x2e8
>
>Could someone help me to find the device name of mouse, please?  I can't
>start XFree86, because /dev/mouse don't exists...
>

Hi,

Try :
ln -s /dev/cua01 /dev/mouse
If you don't have a /dev/cua01, then
mknod /dev/cua01 c 28 129

	Have fun

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