>>>>>>>> On Wed, 5 Mar 1997,, Mark wrote: Mark> Hi all, Mark> Mark> I just joined the mailing list since I just upgraded my 2 year Mark> old Slackware installation to Debian 1.2.7 from ftp.debian.org. Mark> Mark> All in all, I'd have to say I'm pleased but there are a few Mark> nagging questions. Mark> Mark> getty processed on ttyS1 block modem access to cua1. When a Mark> getty is running (getty, agetty, uugetty or mgetty) and I try Mark> to run kermit (or minicom or statserial) I get a can't open Mark> device error. Why? They didn't used to. Is this a new kernel Mark> feature?
I am not sure about this, but AFAIK Debian kernel that comes with the boot floppy doesn't have serial support compiled into the kernel, so you'll have to recompile your kernel to recognize serial devices. borik ----------------------------------------------------------- Boris D. Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Institute of Computer Science, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hebrew University Jerusalem home: +972 2 6411880
