Serial console seems to have disappeared

Doug White dwhite at gumbysoft.com
Tue Mar 1 05:46:05 GMT 2005


On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Tillman Hodgson wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 06:14:49PM -0800, Doug White wrote:
> > The current recommendation is to use the uart(4) driver, which should
> > support the same chips as the zs and sab drivers (unless you're on an
> > Enterprise [34][05]00).  The tty device changes to /dev/ttyu*.
> >
> > Prior to that change I had gettys starting on ttyz[01] and not using the
> > ttya/b links -- I'm not even sure where those come from.
>
> Thanks muchly for your information -- it's currently working great on
> ttyz1, and I'm starting to look into what it'll take to move to uart(4)
> (google seems to be saying that just swapping the devices into/out of my
> kernel ought to work).

.. and tweaking ttys appropriately :-)

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