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Hi,

Andreas Koppenhoefer wrote:
> gert@greenie.muc.de (Gert Doering) writes:
> 
> > Don't use cua1 for *anything*, use ttyS1.
> 
> There is one exception from this rule: Solaris 2.x 

I was talking about Linux only.  For FreeBSD and Solaris, cua is the right
device (I haven't yet found out what's the difference on those platforms,
but I've received many reports that cua works always and tty only
"sometimes").

> with some sort of
> MAGMA multi-serial SBus cards. mgetty just hangs if using /dev/term/0,
> but works fine with /dev/cua/0.  Maybe MAGMA driver just switch
> behaviour of /dev/term and /dev/cua since both builtin serial port
> require mgetty using /dev/term/[ab].

Does that mean that mgetty *doesn't* work on /dev/cua/a? Confusing.

gert

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