Re: Now A2232 stuff...

["Michael L. Hitch" <mhitch%lightning.msu.montana.edu@localhost>]

On Tue, 25 May 2010, John Klos wrote:

> wanted to check out how well my A2232 would work. A strange thing (or perhaps 
> undocumented change) is that the ports show up as ttyB0 through ttyB6, 
> although /etc/ttys says that the first A2232 should be ttyA0 through A6 and 
> the second A2232 B0 through B6. Is this intentional, and should /etc/ttys be 
> updated?

  No, according to the comments, B? are the MultiFace Card serial ports.
But those comments are certainly wrong, and would appear to have been 
wrong for 10 years.  The ttyA0 is the first MultiFace Card serial port, 
and ttyB0 is the first A2232 serial port.

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Michael L. Hitch                        mhitch%montana.edu@localhost
Computer Consultant
Information Technology Center
Montana State University        Bozeman, MT     USA