US Robotics 5610A

[Heath Kuespert]

Hey i saw the artical about the Us robotics 5610A and i have the exact same modem.....i installed mandrake 7.2 on a seprate harddrive and i upgraded the kernel to 2.4 and it works fine......when i tell it to detect a modem.....it finds it on ttyS4 but its not listed as on of the selectable options.....=( do u know what i can do?
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[Bills_a_bub]

Heath,

I'm going off of memory here, since I'm at work on a Windows box and not at home on my Linux box. But here goes.

On a command line as root (#):

#cd /dev
#rm /dev/modem
#ln -s /dev/modem /dev/ttyS4

This removes the "modem" virtual device, then creates a link from ttyS4 to "modem", which is created when you create the symbolic link (ln -s).

To verify that the symbolic link was made, type #ls -al modem

The output will give you a complete listing of the modem device. On the right side you should see something similar to
-->/dev/ttyS4.

Now when you try to use it your program (assuming kppp here), instead of trying to point to /dev/ttyS4 point to /dev/modem.

That should get you going. If not, let us know. Good luck!

<edit>Now that I've typed and posted it, I think I may have the order of the files backwards in the ln command.</edit>
<edit2>I did have them backward. Sorry</edit2>

[ 14 April 2001: Message edited by: Bills_a_bub ]

[ 14 April 2001: Message edited by: Bills_a_bub ]