Re: setting up a modem device

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Jos Elkink wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've got a little question. I am not too lazy to find the answer myself,
> but have no clue this time where to start looking or what search terms
> to search on on the internet. So, if anyway can point me in the right
> direction ...
>
> The problem:
>
> I have a laptop, a Toshiba 2060 CDS, with, obviously, Debian Linux on it
> (Sarge). Now I would like to connect to the internet, so I need to find
> the device for the modem.
>
> The command lspci lists the modem, so I can find the address as listed
> there.
>
> My question is, how do I find out what file in /dev points to the modem
> port? (Or more in general, how do you find out where a device file
> points to?)
>
> And if none points to the modem, how do I create a file in /dev (e.g.
> /dev/modem) pointing at a specific address? And do I need info other
> than what is given in lspci?
>
> Any help would be very welcome, especially as to how I find the answer
> in this kind of cases ...
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Jos
> jelkink@cantr.net
>
>
>  
Chances are real good that your modem is a "win-modem", and won't work 
"right out of the box" no matter what you do in /dev.

I'd recommend you go to www.linuxmodems.org and see if you can search 
that sight for you specific modem. It's fairly likely that you can get 
it to work if it's a Lucent chipset. If it's a different chipset, your 
chances are probably considerably decreased, but not eliminated altogether.

Kent