Re: flexfax: Need help on Linux

[Nico Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Evan Leibovitch wrote:

> >   Historically, Linux used cuaX devices for dial out and ttySx devices
> >   for dial in.
> > 
> >   The kernel code that required this was changed in kernel version 2.0.x
> >   and you should now use ttySx for both dial in and dial out. I
> >   understand that the cuaX device names may well disappear in future
> >   kernel versions.
> 
> But you can't count on all the serial-board vendors doing the same thing.
> Some contunue to have different operation for cu* and tty*.

If they are writing Linux compatible drivers, they had darn well
better include th default tty* behavior. And that is *sufficient* for
HylaFAX and modern modem software. Even if they include funky different
options for cu*. Thus, the *availability* of cu* ports becomes moot.

			Nico Garcia
			Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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