From: rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar) Subject: Re: UUCICO, Serial I/O, Linux 0.99pl5 Date: 11 Feb 1993 18:29:10 GMT
In article <1993Feb11.083751.817@amscons.amscons.com> bob@amscons.amscons.com (Bob Amstadt) writes:
>OK, I have tried a few things including recompiling uucico, and renaming
>the serial lines to ttyS0 and ttyS1, but I still can't get uucico to
>work with the pl5 kernel. So now I ask the net before I spend days
>debugging the problem. Why doesn't my uucico work with the new kernel?
>As a side note, uugetty does work with the new kernel, and uucico's
>debugging message indicate that it is getting hung up trying to open
>the serial line. Any clues?
>--
>Bob Amstadt
>bob@amscons.com
Could be the new "dialout" devices...
For calling out, you should be using /dev/cua?, not /dev/ttyS?.
The major number for the "dialout" devices is 5, and the minor
numbers are the same (64 for cua0, 65 for cua1, etc.).
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