The /dev/modems directory is not /dev/modem - that little "s" makes a big difference. Anyway, /dev/modem is not a directory at all, it's a symbolic link to your serial port. Most computers have two serial ports, /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1 which in the Windows/DOS world correspond to com1 and com2. If you're not sure which is the correct one for your computer, just create one and see if it works, and delete it if it doesn't. As root, create /dev/modem like this: ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/modem You can check that this succeeded: ls -l /dev/modem lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 May 27 13:38 /dev/modem -> /dev/ttyS0 Linux is case-sensitive, so be careful - that "S" in /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1 is uppercase. Now see if your modem works. If you still get an error, remove /dev/modem like this: rm /dev/modem (WARNING: Do NOT, under any circumstances, remove /dev/ttyS0, just remove the symbolic link). OK, now that it's removed, create a symbolic link to the second serial port: ln -s /dev/ttyS1 /dev/modem If it still doesn't work, then I don't know - we'll need more information to see what's wrong. Yast2 should have detected your modem for you when you installed, but of course it wouldn't succeed if the modem was not turned on at the time. You should be able to get it to do that for your even now, but you can also create the symbolic link manually, as above. - Robert Storey On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 07:22, Forrest Halford wrote:
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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