From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 2 17:44:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B65F37BC7F for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 17:44:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA94520; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 17:44:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <38E7E971.162B7763@gorean.org> Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2000 17:44:33 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christian Weisgerber Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Serial->serial connection (sio0 -> sio1) References: <38E6E5EA.22A1038F@gorean.org> <8c7bgc$umu$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Christian Weisgerber wrote: > > Doug Barton wrote: > > > There is a weird problem with the serial code in ttys. You have to boot > > with a comconsole before the tty will appear. > > Since when? This is absurd and I haven't observed it yet. It's been that way for quite a while. In a discussion about it this week on the -questions list someone narrowed it down to a problem with clocal not being properly set. You can demonstrate it by booting without a serial console (no -P in /boot.config, no kernel options, etc.) and then try to get a tty on that line. Doug -- "So, the cows were part of a dream that dreamed itself into existence? Is that possible?" asked the student incredulously. The master simply replied, "Mu." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message