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From: jpm@microwiz.com (John McNamee)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Minicom
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 23:14:27 GMT
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bacon@miller.cs.uwm.edu (Jason Bacon) wrote:
>Has anyone out there ported Minicom to FreeBSD?  ( It's a communications
>program that looks like Procomm )
>
>I compiled it on my 2.1.0 system without any problems, but for some reason
>it can't get in touch with my modem.  It can't be a hardware problem,
>since I'm using seyon at this moment.  I tried compiling with -DBSD
>and -DSYSV.  Both compiled fine, but neither one would connect to the modem.
>
>No error messages, either - the modem (/dev/ttyd1) just doesn't respond.

Try using /dev/cuaXX instead of /dev/ttyXX.

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