modem keeps disappearing

[Claude Jones]

Claude Jones wrote:
> I'm having a disappearing modem problem. I put in the computer, it gets 
> recognized by kudzu, and it comes up working. I use it to dial in to an 
> old mainframe. Kermit sees it, and I have ProComm for DOS running under 
> dosemu. All seems well. I shut down the computer, and when it comes back 
> up, it has disappeared. So far, I've only been able to recover it by 
> removing it and rebooting, and then reinstalling it and rebooting. It 
> seemed to be a problem with a lockfile earlier on, but, that's no longer 
> the case. Can anyone offer an idea? I've searched the list and read the 
> configuration manuals from Redhat, but there is precious little said 
> about modems for old-style dialup.

I reply to myself - the modem is not disappearing. By doing a kudzu -p I 
was able to determine that the modem is still configured and is set to 
ttyS14 - when I used that to connect via Kermit and ProComm just now, I 
got in. So, does anyone know why, is it called the 'symbolic link' 
/dev/modem?, keeps disappearing?

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Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA