From: Theodore Ts'o (tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Date: 10/22/92


From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Subject: Re: Modem Probs... ttys1 or ttys2?
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1992 20:58:31 GMT


   From: cs911461@ariel.yorku.ca (C. D. ARMOUR)
   Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1992 01:05:40 GMT

   Problem: I cannot send AT commands to the modem. Commands such as:
                   $ echo "AT S0=5" > /dev/ttys2
             don't cause the AA light to come on (Hayes). If I do it
             under Kermit, it works fine but not from the command line.
             What's going on? The modem is on (DOSspeak--->) "COM2".

There was a brief confusion on the SLS release about whether you should
be using /dev/ttys0 or /dev/ttys1 to address the "COM1" port. But the
SLS release now uses a zero-based numbering system, as does all of the
other releases out there, at least to my knowledge. So if you want to
access the "COM2" port, try using /dev/ttys1.

                                                        - Ted