From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 14 13:28:28 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA03818 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Mar 1995 13:28:28 -0800 Received: from larry.infi.net (larry.infi.net [198.22.1.107]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA03804 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 1995 13:28:21 -0800 Received: from mcaughey by larry.infi.net with SMTP (8.6.10/Server1.8) id KAA09058; Tue, 14 Mar 1995 10:06:03 -0500 Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 10:06:03 -0500 Message-Id: <199503141506.KAA09058@larry.infi.net> X-Sender: mcaughey@infi.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: questions@FreeBSD.org From: mcaughey@infi.net (Michael Caughey) Subject: Configuring Serial I/O Ports Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've been trying to configure my com1 port or /dev/sd0. I was orginally trying to connect via kermit to a service provider per the ppp.doc that freeBSD has on there ftp site to establish a ppp connection. The problem I ran into was that when I used the following command in kermit: >set line /dev/sd0a I got the following error: Sorry, can't open connection: /dev/sd0a: Device not configured So I thought the next step might be to quit kermit and try configuring the port. the only info I could find in refrence to configuring ports was the ifconfig command. I'm pretty sure its the correct one. That is in part why I'm writing. Is it? Here is what I've attempted so far. I tried to issue the command: ifconfig /dev/sd0a 204.183.227.2 up netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 204.183.227.255 Now I don't really feel like that was the command to use but I couldn't find any thing on configuring serial ports only ether net ports. Well if it was even close to the correct one, it certianly wasn't correct itself. I got a big 'ol ERROR! Well not that big but it put a stop to this mornings activities for me, at least on the UNIX box. My question is what should I do so that I can configure my (com 1) port? ^^^^^ @ 0 0 @ & ~ Michael Caughey.