i386/140887: 8.0 sysinstall needs to update to new serial port name

Joe Barbish fbsd1 at a1poweruser.com
Thu Nov 26 07:10:02 UTC 2009


>Number:         140887
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       8.0 sysinstall needs to update to new serial port name
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-i386
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Nov 26 07:10:01 UTC 2009
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Joe Barbish
>Release:        8.0 release
>Organization:
n/a
>Environment:
>Description:
The full release notes at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/relnotes-detailed.html  say the following

[amd64, i386] The uart(4) is now the default driver for serial port devices in favor of the sio(4) driver. Note that the device nodes have been renamed with /dev/cuauN and /dev/ttyuN.

The sysinstall menu that configures the mouse has not been changed to reflect the new device names created by this change.

Maybe the /dev/ttyuN also needs updating somewhere in sysinstall also.


>How-To-Repeat:
plug in a serial mouse and use sysinstall to post statements in rc.conf. mouse will not work
>Fix:
make change to sysinstall mouse configure menu

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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