[gentoo-user] where is /dev/ttyS* ?

[maxim wexler]

Hello everybody,

When I try to dialup the 'net on a fresh 2.6.16
install I get:

#pon <isp>
/usr/sbin/pppd: In file /etc/peers/hd: unrecognized
option '/dev/ttyS0'

Sure enough, there's no such file, just /dev/tty, 0, 1
... On my 2.6.12 and 2.6.15 boxen /dev/ttyS0 is a
sym-link to tts/0 and I can dial out no problem. On
the 2.6.16 box ls /dev/tty* just reveals a numerical,
unlinked list. /dev/ttyS* no longer exists.

Here's what pppconfig wrote(identical on all my PCs):

sarawak heathen # cat /etc/ppp/peers/hd
# This optionfile was generated by pppconfig 2.3.10. 
# 
#
hide-password 
noauth
connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/hd"
debug
/dev/ttyS0
115200
defaultroute
noipdefault 
user "entbloc1@×××××××.com"
remotename hd
ipparam hd

As it stands now I can dial out from the 2.6.16 box
only if I boot the install-cd and copy over from
another drive my ppp config files and use the pppd
that comes with the install-cd. And *it* uses
/dev/ttyS0. If I try to go with /dev/tty or /dev/tty0
on the fresh install without benefit of install-cd,
nothing happens -- no error on the console or the
logs, no dialtone, nothing.

Yes, I did mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0 

and here's lsmod copied over from the 2.6.16 box.

heathen@sarawak ~ $ cat /floppy/lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
ppp_async              11840  0 
crc_ccitt               1952  1 ppp_async
ppp_deflate             6176  0 
zlib_deflate           21528  1 ppp_deflate
zlib_inflate           17440  1 ppp_deflate
bsd_comp                5952  0 
ppp_generic            26484  3
ppp_async,ppp_deflate,bsd_comp
slhc                    6912  1 ppp_generic
rtc                    14452  0 
usbcore               148804  1 
unix                   29712  4 

I'm using ppp-2.4.3-r14. When I emerged it I was told
that I must 

emerge -u '>=sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.0_pre11'

as well as add bsd_comp and ppp_deflate to my kernel
config. Both of which I did.

So, I'm stuck

-mw

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