***** 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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