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From: Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk>
To: david@angra.uac.pt
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Subject: Re: working with the serial port
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David <david@angra.uac.pt> writes:

> Hello!  I was working with Mandrake but after finding some bugs in
> the operating system, I decided to move to freeBSD.  I'm programming
> communications via RS-232 serial port.  I'm using the same source
> code (except the change ttyS0 <-> cuaa0) that I was using with
> Mandrake but now I can't read from the serial port ...  I can write,
> though...  Is ther any other change I have to the in my source in
> order to be able to read from the port?  I'm sending my source code
> for the case someone can help ...  Cheers David

I don't know if this has anything to do with your problem, but there
are several different devices with several different purposes. cuaa is
the callout device. You might want to look at ttyd0 ?

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