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Date:      Sun, 20 Aug 2000 09:44:49 -0700
From:      Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Cc:        Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bad /dev/cuaa1??
Message-ID:  <20000820094449.B41415@tao.thought.org>
In-Reply-To: <200008201202.e7KC2Wh03848@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>; from brian@Awfulhak.org on Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 01:02:32PM %2B0100
References:  <kline@thought.org> <200008201202.e7KC2Wh03848@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>

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On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 01:02:32PM +0100, Brian Somers wrote:
> > 
> >     This is rather bizarre.  I have two virtually identical USR modems;
> >     I also have vitually identical ppp and tip and cu setup--I just
> >     copied over tarballs from this system to sage.thought.org.
> > 
> >     According to ppp:
> > 
> >       Warning: deflink: /dev/cuaa1: Bad file descriptor
> 
> Sounds like the device wasn't probed properly.  Check out your dmesg 
> output.
> 

	Yup; that lead to checking my BIOS and to the discovery
	--thanks to Sean O'Connell here <sean@stat.Duke.EDU> whose 
	eyesight is much better than mine--that my COM2 port was 
	set to COM3.   

	At any rate, things work ... .

	gary

> 

-- 
   Gary D. Kline         kline@tao.thought.org          Public service Unix



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