On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:42:38 -0800, Duane Clark wrote: > Beartooth wrote: >> Why is it claiming 20 and only showing me six? > > Ignore that. I don't know what the number means when the 'L' parameter > is used with 'ls', but it doesn't mean there are actually 20 entries. > Try the ls without the 'L' and see the difference. >> More disturbingly, what is that next to last line with all the question >> marks?? Have I messed up my dosdevices? > When using the 'L' parameter, that appears to indicate an invalid link. Sure enough : [btth@localhost dosdevices]$ ls c: com1 com2 z: [btth@localhost dosdevices]$ file com1 com1: symbolic link to `/dev/ttyS0' [btth@localhost dosdevices]$ file com2 com2: broken symbolic link to `/dev/ttyUSB0' [btth@localhost dosdevices]$ NB: com2, but not com1, shows up on a red background on my screen, which is what prompted me to try the file command. And I found confirmation -- of a sort : [root@localhost ~]# ls /dev/ttyS* /dev/ttyS0 /dev/ttyS1 /dev/ttyS2 /dev/ttyS3 [root@localhost ~]# ls /dev/ttyU* ls: /dev/ttyU*: No such file or directory [root@localhost ~]# Being a skeptical sort, I also tried ls /dev/tty* -- and sure enough, there is no /dev/ttyU-anything. Yet the machine has two USB ports right in front. BUT when I do [root@localhost ~]# ls /dev | grep tty I do get a bottom line saying ttyUSB0 -- what in ....?? Incidentally, I also get [root@localhost ~]# file /dev/ttyUSB0 /dev/ttyUSB0: character special (188/0) [root@localhost ~]# which appears quite analogous to the results for tty, tty1, etc. I plugged the adapter that goes between a serial cable and a USB port into one, did /dev/ttyU* again, and got the same again, on both. So I tried it again, with the serial cable and a live GPS on the adapter. Still none. Do I need to add a couple of lines to /dev/? Can I simply command "nano -w /dev" and type onto the bottom? Or What?? Why isn't the machine seeing it own hardware, that's been there since I got it, months ago? Or seeing it one way, but not another?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck, Double Retiree, Not Quite Clueless Linux Power User : Fedora Core 4 [etc] I have precious (very precious) little idea where up is. _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
