On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 08:13:31AM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 06:39:23PM -0800, Alexander Carver wrote:
>
> > Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> > >On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:45:38PM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> > >
> > >>hOn Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 01:15:29PM -0800, Alex Carver wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>I've tried all the suggestions so far but no luck. I can not ever
> > >>>get /dev/cua* to work properly.
> > >>>
> > >>>Even cat fails:
> > >>>
> > >>># cat < /dev/cuaa
> > >>>ksh: cannot open /dev/cuaa: Device not configured
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>So the fundamental problem is this "Device not configured" error.
> > >>>How is OpenBSD supposed to be configuring these devices and why is
> > >>>my system not doing so? This is a completely clean install of
> > >>>OpenBSD on the machine after completely formatting and
> > >>>repartitioning the hard drive.
> > >>>
> > >>>There's something missing and it's probably something simple but
> > >>>I've stared at it for so logn now that I'm likely missing it
> > >>>entirely.
> > >>according to sys/arch/sparc/sparc/conf.c, zs uses major device number 12.
> > >>
> > >>Check the device majer/minors: /dev/ttya should be 12,0 and
> > >>/dev/cuau 12,128.
> > >
> > >That should be cuaa of course
> >
> >
> > # ls -l /dev/cuaa
> > crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 12, 128 Feb 21 18:52 /dev/cuaa
> > # ls -l /dev/ttya
> > crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 12, 0 Feb 24 22:31 /dev/ttya
> > #
> >
> >
> > They match what they should be but it still comes up device not configured.
>
> In that case I'm out of suggestions. I dont't have a machine to reproduce.
Well, looking at the code, it seems that sparc's sz(4) just does not
do cua and never did. I suspect the man page is wrong. Does /dev/ttya
work for you? Of course using it for both incoming and outgoing will
not fly...
-Otto
