[PLUG] device sl0 missing

[John Cirillo]

>> John Cirillo <cirillo@purdue.edu> writes:
> 
>> I'm going to try playing around with sliplogin on my serial line to my
>> Commodore 128, but I realized that I seem to need a network device called
>> sl0.
>> I have slip compiled as a module, but no /dev/sl0.  Do I just make this
>> with
>> MAKEDEV or mknod, or is there a special way to acquire it?
>> Anybody have experience setting up sliplogin?
> 
> I've never dealt with logins over slip, but you should just be able to
> use MAKEDEV.  I don't know what the major and minor numbers for
> /dev/sl0 are though.
> 
> Also, you might want to check out:
> http://linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/Serial-HOWTO.html
> 
> Charles Fultz
> fultz
> 
> 
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> 

OK, it's easier than I expected. First, sl0 will never be found in /dev,
and MAKEDEV doesn't know about it.  After doing a 'modprobe slip', then an
appropriate slattach command, which apparently attaches slip to a serial line
of my choice (cua0 or ttys0, etc) then when I do ifconfig -a, there it is.
Just like any other interface. So this seems to be a software trick to create
a pseudo hardware interface.  Now to get it to work...  I'm in pretty deep
here. Funny that, probably 6 or 7 years ago, this was the usual way to get
your machine on the internet and now it's almost a forgotten art. Sort of
like gopher. Speaking of which, Purdue still has a live gopher server, I found
it the other day. gopher://hermes.ecn.purdue.edu:70/1 
Anyway, thanks for the reply. I think I've got it working now. 

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John Cirillo
E-Mail: cirillo@purdue.edu