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From: conklin@frith.uucp (Terry Conklin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: FAS 2.06 mysterious missing TTYs
Summary: Where'd all the TTYs go?
Keywords: FAS 2.06, COM1-4, stock, standard, wha?
Message-ID: <1990Jun4.072618.19429@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Date: 4 Jun 90 07:26:18 GMT
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With a touch of net-help, I got FAS 2.06 to compile under ESIX. However,
none of the ports work. (ISA COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4) Today I even
retreated totally to just COM1 and COM2 on IRQ3 & 4,  (totally stock)
and still no response on the ports.

The FAS driver at boot up indicates [****] ('all fine'). However,
as I spawn off the gettys on the ports, ps's TTY column (TTY owner or
such) shows a ?, indicating there is 'no controlling terminal?'

All, that is, except one getty. When I had fas controlling two ports,
the getty that was supposed to be running on ttyFM00 was showing ?,
and ttyFM01 was displayed. When I configured FAS to control 4 ports,
only ttyFM00 showed - all the other gettys were running on ?s. 

No - it's not a hardware problem. I can configure 3 of the 4 ports with
ESIX's own asy driver configuration utility and they work fine. d
Thus I know I have my port addresses and IRQ lines right. 

Any clues would be appreciated. Email preferably.

Terry Conklin
conklin@egr.msu.edu
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