Re: Can't recognize com port

["Alan D. Post" <alan.post@usa.net>]

Kenneth.Scharf@coulter.com wrote:

> >ANy suggestions on how I can get PPP to recognize my com port?  I just
> installed linux on my
> >system.  I set pgm to tty1 (com2) (it was orignally on tty0) which is
> where my mouse is.  It
> >it working. Neither PPP nor minicom will recognize cua2, Com3.
>
> I was screwing this up in sort of the same way.  Use /dev/ttyS1 (com2).
> Note CAP S.  tty0 is your virtual console (screen).  So is ttys1.  /dev/cua
> does not exist (in debian anyway).
>

I created /dev/cua1 using the command

mknod -m 660 /dev/cua1 c 5 65
chown root.dialout /dev/cua1

which I got out of a book on Linux networking.  Previously I was using
/dev/ttyS1 for outgoing connections.  Is there any reason to use the cua
devices?

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