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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!news.Stanford.EDU!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!venus.sun.com!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!hvozda From: hvozda@netcom.com (Eric S. Hvozda) Subject: Re: Serial ports on 1.0/1.1 Message-ID: <hvozdaDJn5Kp.ABn@netcom.com> Keywords: serial port i/o error cu Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) References: <4as3ro$2o8@sol.sun.csd.unb.ca> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 18:48:25 GMT Lines: 22 Sender: hvozda@netcom7.netcom.com In article <4as3ro$2o8@sol.sun.csd.unb.ca>, Peter Howlett <phowlett@opie.ASG.unb.ca> wrote: >Howdy, I am trying to get a slip connection working on i386 NetBSD >I am however having difficulty connecting to the port. I am able >to change stty setting using the mentioned sleep 1000 </dev/tty00 >command mentioned in the faq but the cu and tip commands give >an error: Getting serial ports to work for tip(1) isn't too bad, but you need to keep these in mind: * softcar should be in /etc/ttys for the port (rtscts isn't a bad idea either) * whoever you want to dial out should be in group dialer * the device should be in /etc/remote * the device should be owned by uucp.dialer In addition of that, you might want to touch /var/log/aculog and make sure it's owned by uucp.dialer as well. Then again, maybe not if you don't care about logging... -- Ack! Creek, not creek; Pop not soda; Car needs washed; Gumband...