I have an Alphastation 200 4/166 (PCI model) running OSF/1 3.2a, and am having
a devil of a time talking to the serial ports (tty00 and tty01).
Initially, with the off-the-CD install, attempts to tip over to it would
result in the machine panicing. Since I'd heard of this happening on
DECstations under Ultrix, when the major/ minor device numbers were wrong.
They were setup to match our DEC 3000 model 300LX's, which were:
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 24, 2 Apr 7 12:50 /dev/tty00
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 24, 3 Apr 7 12:50 /dev/tty01
The serial ports work fine on these. I attempted to recreate the devices
using 'MAKEDEV scc' (the nearest I could find to the tty), and that resulted
in the same major/minor device numbers. (24,2/3).
Then, grasping at straws, I attempted to setup LAT, and try the major/minors
provided there:
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 5, 0 Jul 18 11:36 /dev/tty00
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 5, 1 Jul 18 11:36 /dev/tty01
what ends up happening in this case, is the machine doesn't panic, but tip
never seems to sync up with the modem attached to the serial port (no lights
blink on the modem, it echos every character back at me).
anyone have any ideas what I'm missing on this one? Perhaps it's just a
simple matter of the major/minors being wrong, or something else entirely.
Thanks in advance.
-Todd
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Received on Thu Jul 20 1995 - 00:24:38 NZST