[Sussex] knotty problem

[Angelo Servini]

Hi fellas

Now that I have gentoo up and running I still have a problem with pppd:

When I connect it works fine.   However, when I boot up the PC next day and
try to get online I find that /dev/modem has been turned into a directory
not a softlink and gentoo complains that it is unable to use it.

I used:  ln -sf ttyS0 modem   

Ive even tried removing it and:   ln -s ttyS0 modem

but when I boot up the second time it has turned into a directory again.

when I do a ls /dev/modem it lists as  /dev/modem/ttyS0

strange!

:-|

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Angelo Servini
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