Re: Installing modem.

["Aaron W. Hsu" <noorah@aaronhsu.com>]

I have come into this thread pretty late, but from what I understand,
you are trying to get a modem to work.  It's a PCI modem, and you can
see it mentioned in the kernel as ttyS04.  The problem, as I see it,
is that you can't get the modem to respond to any calls from any
programs?

If I understand this all correctly, I had a horrible time with this
a while back with another computer, where I could get the PCI modem
automatically recognized and used in RedHat, but in Debian I could get
nothing out of it.  Some wise user showed me how to fix this:

1. Use /dev/MAKEDEV to make the ttyS4 device in /dev, as your kernel
will normally not make it for you.

2. The device should now be available under that name, and you should
be able to use it freely in any system, you should probably also
symlink it to /dev/modem so that some dialer programs will work
properly.

I hope this helps, tell me if I misunderstand what you are trying to
do, and sorry if this was OT.

Aaron Hsu