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From: Marco Atzeri <marco_atzeri AT yahoo DOT it>
Subject: R: Some questions about Cygwin
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--- Mar 21/7/09, loody  ha scritto:

> Da: loody=20
> Oggetto: Some questions about Cygwin
> A: cygwin
> Data: Marted=EC 21 luglio 2009, 11:32
> Dear all:
> I have some questions about cygwin:
> 1. how can I access my xp serial port, even on of them is
> USBtoSerial
> =A0 =A0 I have google this question. I can see there
> is /dev under my
> cygwin. But I have no /dev/ttyS[0-9] under my /dev.
> Does that mean what I have to do is create the device node
> ttyS[0-9].
> I mknod it but it tells me the file exist already like
> below
>=20
> $ pwd
> /dev
> cd AT PC9 /dev
> $ ls -lht
> total 4.0K
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 ???????? Users 13 Mar 25 15:40 fd ->
> /proc/self/fd
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 ???????? Users 15 Mar 25 15:40 stderr ->
> /proc/self/fd/2
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 ???????? Users 15 Mar 25 15:40 stdout ->
> /proc/self/fd/1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 ???????? Users 15 Mar 25 15:40 stdin ->
> /proc/self/fd/0
> cd AT PC9 /dev
> $ mknod ttyS0 c 4 64
> mknod: `ttyS0': File exists
> cd AT PC9 /dev
> $
>=20

/dev is not populated in the usual way but the devices=20
are there :-)

$ls -l /dev/ttyS1
crw-rw-rw- 1 .. /dev/ttyS1

$ ls -l /dev/ttyS8
crw-rw-rw- 1 .. /dev/ttyS8

$ ls -l /dev/ttyS10
crw-rw-rw- 1 .. /dev/ttyS10



> 2. is there mips toolchain running on cygwin I can download
> instead of
> downloading buildroot to build it?
> appreciate your help,
> miloody
>=20

no idea, sorry

Marco






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