11 Dec
2000
11 Dec
'00
12:07 p.m.
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to get a BBK-S4 SBus-based transputer card working on a SUN
> IPX workstation running Solaris 2.6. I have the Basic Transputer
> Support Software (BTSS 3.1) which has support for Solaris. However, I
> do not have any documentation. The BTSS requires the creation
> of "/dev/sbus?" in order for it to communicate with the transputer. I
> do not have any /dev/sbus[0-3] devices on my system. I tried to
> symbolically link one of the sbus psuedo devices that is found
> in /devices to /dev/sbus[0-3], but that doesnt seem to work. How do
> you create the /dev/sbus[0-3] devices? I am trying to get Parix 1.2
> running on a T8-based Xplorer. This is the 1st step in many to come to
> get this system up and running. Any help is much appreciated...
>
> Oh, before anyone asks, I booted using "boot -r" to reconfigure the
> system, but that didnt work either...
>
> Ram
>
>
A symbolic link won't work, since its not the contents of the
file that are important. The first place to look is the
MAKEDEV script in the /dev directory. This should show you
how to make the /dev/sbus files.
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Dr. Mark Green mark(a)cs.ualberta.ca
McCalla Professor (780) 492-4584
Department of Computing Science (780) 492-1071 (FAX)
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2H1, Canada