[nos-bbs] Legacy pty/tty devices at Raspberry PI 2

[Boudewijn (Bob) Tenty]

I know..

They set legacy BSD devices =  yes in the config so they are available but
set the quantity at the second config line below that to zero and that 
is why
they don't show up. The boot line sets the quantity of them.

But you are out of luck with the latest  Debian (Jessie) because
there the whole thing is switched off -- You need to turn it turn on in 
the config
and recompile. The same if you grab a kernel from kernel.org.

Bob VE3TOK




On 16-03-03 04:11 PM, Bill Vodall wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 12:24 PM, ve1drg <ve1drg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Holy cow Bob.
>>
>> Thanks for all the work. But why is it not working?
>>
>> Is everyone  having this problem with the raspberry  Pi??
>
> Newer Linux kernels, from the past few years, use the new PTY system
> and don't turn on the legacy PTY's we need.  The last time I ran into
> it I had to add an option to the boot line to tell the Kernel to use
> Legacy PTY's.  From there on they showed up.
>
> 73
> Bill, WA7NWP
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