On a thread in the debian-user mailing list, an answer came up regarding the serial port. It reminded me of an unasked question I had on that topic, which should probably be asked in debian-sparc rather than debian-user:
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 08:41:16PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Check your 'dmesg' (or /var/log/dmesg) output. Should be something > like: > > Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. > Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled > ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A > ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A > ttyS02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A > pty: 512 Unix98 ptys configured > Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 Mine looks like: Sparc Zilog8530 serial driver version 1.41.2.6 tty00 at 0xffede004 (irq = 44) is a Zilog8530 tty01 at 0xffede000 (irq = 44) is a Zilog8530 tty02 at 0xffedb004 (irq = 44) is a Zilog8530 tty03 at 0xffedb000 (irq = 44) is a Zilog8530 Sun TYPE 5 keyboard detected without keyclick pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured but I don't have any devices /dev/tty0[0-3] The modem goes out /dev/ttyS0 according to wvdial.conf Actually this is what's in my /dev directory: seal:/var/spool/exim/input# ls -la /dev | grep "4, 6" crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 4, 60 Feb 20 1999 tty60 crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 4, 61 Feb 20 1999 tty61 crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 4, 62 Feb 20 1999 tty62 crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 4, 63 Feb 20 1999 tty63 crw-r----- 1 root dialout 4, 64 Dec 4 21:43 ttyS0 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 65 Jul 15 2000 ttyS1 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 66 Feb 20 1999 ttyS2 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 67 Feb 20 1999 ttyS3 seal:/var/spool/exim/input# There are 64 tty#, with # from 0 to 63 (yes, 0, not 00). And then there are 4 ttyS#, with # from 0 to 3, and minor numbers continuing after the tty# series. Why doesn't the dmesg output tty0[0-3] match the entries in the /dev directory? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Welcome to the GNU age! http://www.gnu.org
