On Mon, Jun 01, 1998 at 02:33:07PM -0700, Alan D. Post 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? /dev/cua1 does not exist in LINUX anymore--at least not in the newer devel kernels. ttyS1 is pretty much the same thing but better. =>
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