Upgraded to FC# and lost modem

Terry Polzin fox3ec208 at wideopenwest.com
Wed Dec 8 13:43:46 UTC 2004


On Tuesday 07 December 2004 20:57, Edward wrote:
> Self, Glen wrote:
> > I just upgraded to FC3 and my modem disappeared. If I boot into a
> > different OS it works fine and it worked under FC2.
> > It is an external US Robotics 56k faxmodem.
> > What rock do I need to look under to find it? :-)
> > Thanks,
> > Glen
>
> Mine didn't physically disappear, but I wasn't able to refer to is with
> /dev/modem anymore.
>
> Fearing it had something to do with this new udev thing, I just changed
> my scripts to point directly to the serial ports instead (in my case
> /dev/ttyS0).
>
> Maybe that's easier?
It's up to you I guess, it appears that you just lost the symbolic line 
to /dev/modem.

To fix:

ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/modem

enjoy!




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