> a cisco router "cu -s 9600 -l tty00" now that's what I > would normally do to get access, any hints to where I > am going wrong here would be great. > > "pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo"
try using cua00 instead of tty00 The difference between these device nodes documented in tty(4). This semantic behaviour is a copy of something SunOS 4.x did very right.
