David Curry wrote:
Claude Jones wrote:
Claude Jones wrote:
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, I do not recall seeing your issue raised on the list before.
It may have been and I just did not see the thread or do not remember it.
The absence of any respoonses to your query, though, suggests that
readers of the messagee have not come up with any answers to your
question(s). Have you considered filing a bugzilla report on the issue?
David: I am very new to Linux, and have never filed a bugzilla report.
It hadn't occurred to me. I'm not sure I have enough confidence to know
I'm doing everything correctly, and that there isn't something I've done
that's causing the problem. You're right, though - no one else seems to
be having this specific problem. Just to put a few more details on the
subject - the modem is a USR 5610 and was recommended on some Linux site
I visited. It is a real modem, not a winmodem. It works just fine except
for this disappearing problem with the link - I'm reading through the
UDEV pages suggested by someone else earlier today to deal with a
dev/ttyS0 permission denied problem. There's some promise, there. I'll
keep bugzilla in mind.
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Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA
