modem keeps disappearing

[Claude Jones]

David Curry wrote:

> Claude Jones wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>
> Claude, I do not recall seeing your issue raised on the list before.  
> It may have been and I just did not see the thread or do not remember it.
>
> The absence of any respoonses to your query, though, suggests that 
> readers of the messagee have not come up with any answers to your 
> question(s).  Have you considered filing a bugzilla report on the issue?
>
David: I am very new to Linux, and have never filed a bugzilla report. 
It hadn't occurred to me. I'm not sure I have enough confidence to know 
I'm doing everything correctly, and that there isn't something I've done 
that's causing the problem. You're right, though - no one else seems to 
be having this specific problem. Just to put a few more details on the 
subject - the modem is a USR 5610 and was recommended on some Linux site 
I visited. It is a real modem, not a winmodem. It works just fine except 
for this disappearing problem with the link - I'm reading through the 
UDEV pages suggested by someone else earlier today to deal with a 
dev/ttyS0 permission denied problem. There's some promise, there. I'll 
keep bugzilla in mind.

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Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA