I think I was not really expressive

I CAN'T USE THE MODEM

no matter if it's cu, or kermit, or minicom, or chat, the kernel does NOT
talk to the modem

NO at cmds

Oh yes, I've noticed that matter with MAKEDEV, anyways That's not the
problem

On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, David Maxwell wrote:

> Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 14:57:03 -0400
> From: David Maxwell <david@vex.net>
> To: AnorEXia <anorexia@telkom.net>
> Cc: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>, port-i386@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Difficults with the modem
> 
> On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 05:22:25PM +0400, AnorEXia wrote:
> > no
> > com3-tty03
> > 
> > On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> > > AnorEXia <anorexia@telkom.net> wrote:
> > > > I've just installed NetBSD 1.4.2 and since my modem wasn't recognized as
> > > > isapnp device, I added the modem label(DAV0336, Davicom 33.6 PNP) to the
> > > > isapnp devs list on /sys/dev/isa, recompiled and it seems ok, com3 at
> > > > isapnp0, port 0x3e8...etc. Then I 've gone to /dev and sh MAKEDEV tty03. 
> > > > But I can't manage to use chat, cu, minicom or
> > > > 
> > > > Ah, CU gives write/read error
> > > > Minicom gives timeout
> > > 
> > > com3 == tty02
> > > com4 == tty03
> 
> DOS COM4 == NetBSD com3 == NetBSD /dev/tty03
> 
> Under 1.4.2, MAKEDEV tty03 will actually create /dev/tty003, you want to
> MAKEDEV tty3  (That's fixed in -current)
> 
> You probably also want an /etc/uucp/port file something like this:
> 
> port davicom
>   type modem
>   device /dev/tty03
>   speed 115200
> 
> ... if you want cu to open the port with no carrier present.
> 
> -- 
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> 
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