| John Hasler 2005-06-05, 5:46 pm |
| ***** charles writes:
> Well, I thought the "ln -s /dev/modem /dev/536ep0" command would do the
> trick. Buurrr. got an error.
You had it backwards. It should be "ln -s /dev/536ep0 /dev/modem".
> Then I thought that if I changed the /dev/modem in pppconfig...
What /dev/modem in pppconfig? /dev/modem is deprecated and pppconfig does
not mention it.
> ...to /dev/536ep0 that might work. It did!!!
Yes, of course it did. That's what you should have done in the first place.
> This was nowhere in the documentation.
Normal modems use the documented serial ports and pppconfig can find them
by itself, but we can't document all the non-standard "features" of these
oddball winmodems.
> If I had ONE BIG RECOMMENDARION, please make the installation of hardware
> and devices a little more of a no brainer for beginners.
Convince the manufacturers to publish data on their devices so that normal
drivers can be included in the kernel.
> If that doesn't happen, linux will never become as universally acceptable
> as Windows(r).
Have you ever installed Microsoft Windows on a bare machine?
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John Hasler
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