From: Max Webb aka "That weird Linux guy", aka the guy that cant ever seem to
get a date and is home most saturday nights watching the tv, aka the genius
...
Ok your modem / dev problem is simple. Unix/Linux treats every hardware
device that makes up the system as a file; it sees all harware as merly
files. Iinux interacts with hardware through these files. It must be noted
that they are special files that can be created only by the OS when said
devices are installed. BUT /dev/modem is really not a device file. It is a
sybolic link (in windoze talk= a short cut) to a real device file. So we can
make a sym link called /dev/modem and point it to your modems com port.
All we have to do is the following to get your modem working:
1. Determine if your modem is recognized
2. Determine its com port settings
3. Make a sym from /dev/modem to your com port.
Dont worry its not as hard as it sounds!
What to do.
1. At a terminal or console promt
A type su (to login as root {admin})
type <your root password here>
type lspci -v (to list all pci devices & sys devices)
You should now see a bunch of devices and atributes for each listed.
scroll down or up until you find one titled a "serial controller" or "serial
device." It will probably be followed by the name of your modems manufactuer.
A few line below that you will find an entry begining with the word flags.
At the end of that entry you will find what IRQ your modem uses. Write it
down. On the next line you will find what IO address your modem uses. Write
it down exactly.
2. type clear
type cat /proc/tty/driver/serial
You should now see a list of com port numbers and the IO address and IRQ's
that make each up. Look for your modems port and irq in this list. the row
that matches gives you your com port id.
In Unix/ linux com port follow the following format.
(winoze) ---> Linux/Unix
com 1 = /dev/ttyS0
com 2 = /dev/ttyS1
com 3 = /dev/ttyS2 etc
ok for get the windoze com number and remember what # you wrote down for you
from your match.
3. type ln -s
Hello
When I run wvdial I get the message cannot open /dev/modem; no such file or directory...
However there is a directory called modems.....
WIll someone tell me what thier suse 8.0
/dev directory looks like so that I may try to copy it....
I have a modem but cannot configure it in yast2 and wvdial spits up this error...
I treid to create a file named modem but it gave me a wrong otcl type error....
Help Forrest
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