[Gllug] messing with /dev files

jim at lateral.net jim at lateral.net
Thu Feb 21 13:09:54 UTC 2002


Hi all,

thanks for all the advice yesterday Will's answer was the solution I went
for it works though I have had to edit all the config files by hand but it
was a good learning experience.

Peace Jim

> jim at lateral.net wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> despite being offered the loan of a nice external modem by a friend I
>> still feel the need to get this Linmodem working.
>>
>> The problem is with the configuration tools on Debian as far as I can
>> tell sine the modules load into the kernel without too much difficult.
>>
>> The lin modem has its own device /dev/ham but wvdialconf only checks
>> ttyS0 and ttyS1.
>
> I would be surprised if wvdial will only check the two devices.  Here
> is  the sample config file from the man page:
> [Dialer Defaults]
> Modem = /dev/ttyS2
> Baud = 57600
> Init = ATZ
> Init2 = AT S11=50
> Phone = 555-4242
> Username = apenwarr
> Password = my-password
>
> It looks like changing the Modem = /dev/ttyS2 to /dev/ham might do you.
>
>  The wvdial on my system is 1.41 although it is unused.
>
> Will.
>
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