Hi there,
I immediately got a reply from Tom Blinn <tpb_at_zk3.dec.com telling me:
> I don't know why your tty lines were not configured. They should have been.
> Being that as it may, your DEC 3000 does not have "ace" interfaces to the
> serial lines, it has "scc", so you need to cd to /dev and remove the tty00
> and tty01 device files, and ./MAKEDEV scc0 to create the correct ones. You
> need to also check your config file and make sure there are lines in there
> for the scc0 and scc1 devices; if not, the terminal names won't work because
> you won't have the right device driver. You can also check /var/adm/messages
> to see if the scc devices are being found at boot time.
>
> Having the device entries for the wrong driver is probably what panics the
> kernel, although it shouldn't.
Once I removed /dev/tty00 and /dev/tty01 and re-made them using scc0
there is no problem with using the serial lines on the DEC3000.
Thanks to all of you who helped me.
Johan
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Received on Sat Jun 28 1997 - 22:41:54 NZST