Subject: Re: ttyE1/ttyE2 setup
To: george sollish <gsollish@mail.gisco.net>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/30/1999 15:54:39
george sollish wrote:
> 
> Sorry if I've overlooked the obvious, but how does one access the
> virtual terminals?  I've set ttyE1 and ttyE2 to 'on' and changed both to
> group 'tty' to match the listing for ttyE0 in /etc/ttys, but when I
> reboot I get ttyE1 and ttyE2 'device not configured' errors.
> 
> Application is an IBM 755c ThinkPad with 20M RAM and 486DX4 processor.

Do the files /dev/ttyE1 and /dev/ttyE2 exist? If not

cd /dev
sh MAKEDEV wscons

What kernel are you using?

Cheers,

Patrick