Re: modem

["Nathan C. Burnett" <burnet26@cps.msu.edu>]

On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, David B Wilson wrote:

> I tried using my modem, but discovered that I have no /dev/modem or
> /dev/cua*.  A look through the kernel config options didn't turn up
> anything obviously related to modems, so I'm a bit confused.
> I'm runing Debian 1.3, and have a Xircom Ethernet+Modem PCMCIA card
> that seems to work under Windows 95.

/dev/modem is usually just a symbolic link to the device file for whatever
serial port your modem lives on.  The cua* can be created with the
/dev/MAKEDEV program.  However you might just use /dev/ttyS* instead since
they're already there.

So, for example, if your modem is on COM2 under Mess-DOS then you would do
something like (as root)
ln -s /dev/ttyS1 /dev/modem

to create the /dev/modem link.


l8r, Nate


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