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- From: becker@super.org (Donald J. Becker)
- Subject: WARNING -- don't open non-present serial ports under 0.99!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.171447.10776@super.org>
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- Organization: IDA Supercomputing Research Center
- References: <1992Dec16.155632.22190@unislc.uucp>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 17:14:47 GMT
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- In article <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,
- >the system locked up. Is this normal? Shouldn't the driver have returned
- >ENODEV?
-
- Yes, I also noticed this last night -- the problem I used to have with
- the alpha serial code has made its way into the distributed kernel!
-
- IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE SPECIFIED SERIAL PORT INSTALLED, YOUR MACHINE
- WILL JUST STOP.
-
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- Donald Becker becker@super.org
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