From: gleasokr@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Kris Gleason) Subject: Re: kermit and serial lines Date: 28 Mar 1993 00:06:01 GMT
rlm@helen.helen.surfcty.com (Robert L. McMillin) writes:
>Has anyone out there noticed that kermit won't finish launching if
>your modem doesn't send out CD all the time? The problem *seems* to
>be that the open doesn't complete unless CD is up.
This is most likely because you're using kermit on the /dev/ttyS# lines.
For proper operation, use kermit (or uucico, or seyon, or minicom, or
anything that calls out) on the callout lines, /dev/cua#. To create
these devices (if they don't exist), do this as root:
cd /dev
mknod cua0 c 5 64
mknod cua1 c 5 65
mknod cua2 c 5 66
mknod cua3 c 5 67
...
The important thing is that the major number is always 5, and the minor
number is identical to its dialin (ttyS#) counterpart.
Kris