On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 01:01:38AM -0700, Tim Judd wrote: > I'm subscribed to the digest, everyone -- send CC me on every reply > please... > > Hi there, new installation, 6.2-STABLE. > > I have a Belkin UPS on COM1 and sysutils/nut is trying to talk with it. > I know it talks with it, because it has in the past. The problem I'm > getting is that NUT is just filling the screen with errors, tty > overflows, and various problems related to communication on that port > with the UPS. > > Looking at NUT's website, they say the UPS communicates at 2400 baud > 8N1 and I'd like to believe that. I tested without specifying a speed: > # tip com1 > and didn't get anything.. waited 30 seconds or so. After reading > NUT's website, I tried: > # tip -2400 com1 > and got binary data (not readable information, but data none-the-less). > > The kernel reports the port as sio0, but sio0 doesn't exist in /dev > the only serial port I see is cuad0{,.init,.lock} and that seems to be > hard-coded by some init script (but I don't know where). cuad* also is > said to be a dialout line, not a generic com device. /etc/remote does > indicate it is a generic device in the sense it will just pass > input/output...
Look at sio(8), under FILES; the callin ports at /dev/ttyd?. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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