I'm having a disappearing modem problem. I put in the computer, it gets recognized by kudzu, and it comes up working. I use it to dial in to an old mainframe. Kermit sees it, and I have ProComm for DOS running under dosemu. All seems well. I shut down the computer, and when it comes back up, it has disappeared. So far, I've only been able to recover it by removing it and rebooting, and then reinstalling it and rebooting. It seemed to be a problem with a lockfile earlier on, but, that's no longer the case. Can anyone offer an idea? I've searched the list and read the configuration manuals from Redhat, but there is precious little said about modems for old-style dialup.
I reply to myself - the modem is not disappearing. By doing a kudzu -p I was able to determine that the modem is still configured and is set to ttyS14 - when I used that to connect via Kermit and ProComm just now, I got in. So, does anyone know why, is it called the 'symbolic link' /dev/modem?, keeps disappearing?
-- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
