mgetty cannot get TIO

Erik Corry (erik@arbat.com)
Tue, 28 Apr 1998 23:46:16 +0200



In article <3546311D.9D874C43@kamping.com> you wrote:

> I inserted my modem at a 14.4 irq5 /com4.

> Now, I get the following messages:
> mgetty FATAL: yS4  cannot get terminal line dev=ttyS4, exiting

Isn't com4 the same as ttyS3, not ttyS4?

What does the kernel say at boot time. Try a

grep 'kernel: tty0' /var/log/messages

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Erik Corry