help with "COM2" port

[Warren Tucker]

In article <1990May31.202702.22392 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> aindiana at osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (Daiv Stoner) writes:
>I'm trying to hook a terminal to the "COM2" port of a Xenix box running
>SCO XENIX 386.  I assumed this was /dev/tty2a, but I keep getting errors
>from getty that say something like:
>can't open /dev/tty2a:  errno 6
>From /usr/include/sys/errno.h: ENXIO 6  No such device or address

which means the system when it came up
did not find a physical device to hook to tty2a.
When the system starts up, is there a line on the start up screen
for each of two serial lines?
>
>the /dev list for tty2a looks like this:
>crw-rw-rw-   1 bin      bin        5,  8 Apr  5 15:47 tty2a

File 'tty2a' can exist /dev without the physical device being present.

Check IRQ and/or device address strapping on the com card.
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