Serial Ports are there, but not in /dev

Murray Stokely murray at freebsdmall.com
Fri Dec 12 12:26:39 PST 2003


On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 08:18:58AM -0700, Dr. Lyman Hazelton wrote:
> However, they don't show up as devices in /dev.  Anyone have some idea 
> why the system might not like them, and how I can get them to show up 
> as devices?  I have a serial PalmPilot (actually, a Kyocera phone) 
> I'd like to be able to use with KPilot.

Well, are you looking for /dev/cua* and /dev/ttyd* or are you looking
for /dev/sio*?  The latter is not the correct device name.  Please see
the Handbook chapter on this subject and let us know if you are still
having trouble :

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serial.html

	- Murray


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