How is "tip" spelled on Linux-speak?

[jimd at starshine.org]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 12:07:38PM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote:
>>Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 10:20:20 -0700 (PDT)
>>From: David Wolfskill <david at catwhisker.org>
>>To: baylisa at baylisa.org
>>Subject: How is "tip" spelled on Linux-speak?
 
>>In particular, using the recently-minted Linux BBC (Bootable Business Card)?
 
> My thanks to the many correspondents who suggested either "cu" or
> "minicom".
 
> Having been exposed to SysV-flavored systems some years ago, I was aware
> of the existence of "cu", but the BBC had indicated that it was not to
> be found.
 
> It did, however, find "minicom".
 
> Now all I need to do is figure out how to use it (when it claims
 
> 	minicom: WARNING: configuration file not found, using defaults
> 	modprobe: Can't locate module /dev/ttyS1
> 	minicom: cannot open /dev/ttyS1: No such file or directory
 
> Hmmm......)
 
> Thanks again....!
 
> Peace,
> david

 The BBC uses devfs (dynamic, proc-like virtual filesystem for devices)
 rather than the traditional static device nodes.  The devfs code
 changed the naming conventions though a devfsd (daemon) is provided to
 supply symlinks for backwards compatibility.

 Apparently the BBC is not providing a config file to minicom to point
 at the devfs  tty serial line and perhaps devfsd isn't loading the
 appropriate serial kernel modules for the symlink to work.

 I'll have to reboot one of the systems around here on an LNX-BBC to
 help with that.  But look at modprobe serial and maybe run the 
 minicom -s to create a config that points directly to the serial
 device node.

-- 
Jim Dennis