Many thanks to all who replied to my query regarding tty00, tty01
and modem configuration. Everyone pointed out unanimounsly that
./MAKEDEV ace is the answer and it worked.
Special thanks to Dr. Blinn for providing more details which I have
attched below.
Thanks,
Ronny
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It's not obvious, but your system uses the "ace" driver for serial
lines, and the way to make the tty00 and tty01 lines is
cd /dev
./MAKEDEV ace0
When you make ace0, it also does ace1; ace0 and ace1 correspond to the
tty00 and tty01 serial lines. On some of the older systems, the
device driver was called the scc driver, so there were different code
names to create the same pair of serial line special file names.
As it happens, /dev/MAKEDEV is a shell script, so you could have
looked at it with a text editor, searching for "tty", and you *might*
have figured out what was happening.
By the way, a likely reason that the serial lines weren't configured
when the system software was installed would be that they weren't set
up in the EISA configuration data.
If they aren't configured in the firmware/ECU, then they won't be used
by the system configuration process (which runs sizer -n to get a
configuration file for building the kernel as well as a script to run
MAKEDEV to make all the device special file names).
Tom
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Received on Mon Apr 14 1997 - 23:56:38 NZST