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Message-ID: <3A1CFFCE.5090907@cwcom.net> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 11:30:22 +0000 From: Terence McCarthy <saki@cwcom.net> Subject: Serial Port Problem Hi, I am trying to set up a small home network with an old 486 box as a firewall. However, (I think) I have everything sorted except that the serial ports are not available to the modem. <p>ls -l /dev/ttyS? /dev/modem gives the following lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Nov 20 21:20 /dev/modem -> /dev/ttyS00 crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 64 Nov 17 15:56 /dev/ttyS0 crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 65 Nov 8 1999 /dev/ttyS1 crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 66 Nov 8 1999 /dev/ttyS2 crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 67 Nov 8 1999 /dev/ttyS3 crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 68 Nov 8 1999 /dev/ttyS4 crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 69 Nov 8 1999 /dev/ttyS5 crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 70 Nov 8 1999 /dev/ttyS6 crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 71 Nov 8 1999 /dev/ttyS7 crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 72 Nov 8 1999 /dev/ttyS8 crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 73 Nov 8 1999 /dev/ttyS9 <p>I understand that the forth column should read "tty". Can anyone help me to correct this (probably simple and/or stupid) problem, please? (Yes, I have tried to RTFM with every FM I can, and my various Linux books and magazines :-) but to no effect so far!) MTIA Terence
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Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 18:13:49 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> Message-ID: <20001123181349.A2104@buffy.local> Subject: Re: [SLE] Serial Port Problem On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 11:30:22AM +0000, Terence McCarthy wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to set up a small home network with an old 486 box as a firewall. However, (I think) I have everything sorted except that the serial ports are not available to the modem.
ls -l /dev/ttyS? /dev/modem
gives the following
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Nov 20 21:20 /dev/modem -> /dev/ttyS00 crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 64 Nov 17 15:56 /dev/ttyS0 crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 65 Nov 8 1999 /dev/ttyS1
Delete /dev/modem and try.. wvdialconf /dev/null It will be obvious if it can find a modem :) Cliff
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