On Thu, Feb 05, 1998 at 05:33:06PM -0500, John Kloss wrote: > > ... and I can say this about /dev/cua* > > It is NOT obsolete.
Believe me, they are obsolete, and aren't any more installed. > The only way that I can connect to my modem (which is > a pcmcia card) is through /dev/cua1. I tried many times to connect to my > ISP through /dev/ttyS1, 2, 3 (it should be 1 because that is what the com > port is) and nothing happened. When I switched to /dev/cua1 everything > worked. So? if your reasoning means that DOS uses for that port the name COM1, than it is /dev/ttyS0 (historically, TTYs always started from zero, and also don't presume that Linux does something in some way "because" DOS does it in the same way: it's surely a case :-). $ ls -la /dev/ttyS* crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 64 Feb 2 23:31 /dev/ttyS0 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 65 May 28 1997 /dev/ttyS1 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 66 May 28 1997 /dev/ttyS2 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 67 May 28 1997 /dev/ttyS3 fab -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Líder Minimo del Pluto - Debian Developer & Happy Debian User | 6F7267F5 fingerprint 57 16 C4 ED C9 86 40 7B 1A 69 A1 66 EC FB D2 5E > more than 34 months are needed to get rid of the millennium. [me] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
