(In reply to Dieter Jurzitza from comment #6) > Could you kindly shed some light on this, too? Things are going well if I > delete the reference to > BindsTo=dev-%i.device > from within mgetty@service, so, "ttyS4" is acceptable, a link "modem->ttyS4" > is not? How would I ensure the apropriate device to get selected? > > Thanks again - and, finally, could someone provide a pointer where to get > this information from? The documentation is difficult to seek for this. It means that it depends on said device (i.e. ttyS4), while /dev/modem is I assume not considered as a device: I guess that while "systemctl status dev-ttyS4.device" will show you something like: ��� dev-ttyS4.device - /dev/ttyS4 Follow: unit currently follows state of sys-devices-platform-serial8250-tty-ttyS4.device Loaded: loaded Active: active (plugged) since Sat 2016-02-27 11:20:32 CET; 1 day 9h ago Device: /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS4 "systemctl status dev-modem.device" will not