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Re: Can't recognize com port



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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