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- From: hikaru@infodn.rmi.de (Walter Doerr)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: serial port question for 0.99
- Message-ID: <391@infodn.rmi.de>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 12:21:10 GMT
- References: <1992Dec16.155632.22190@unislc.uucp>
- Organization: infodn, Dueren, Germany
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- In <1992Dec16.155632.22190@unislc.uucp> erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) writes:
-
- |I have this serial port problem - I had one serial port in the machine, and
- |when I strapped it for COM2 (/dev/ttys1), rebooted, then accessed /dev/ttys0,
-
- Don't do that then! :-)
-
- |the system locked up. Is this normal? Shouldn't the driver have returned
- |ENODEV?
-
- I had a similar problem when I tried to run a getty on ttys2 when I had only
- COM 1 & 2 installed.
- It seems that the serial driver hangs waiting for an IRQ from the UART
- which will never happen since the device is not hardwarily present.
-
- I vaguely remember that Microport Unix did the same.
-
- -Walter
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