Dialup from a fedora machine

[Rick Stevens]

Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Stuart McGraw writes:
> 
>> NetworkManager too wants a device to talk to, with /dev/modem
>> being the default but since there is no such device (nor anything
>> I see that looks like it would be an emulated serial device that
>> talks to the pci modem card), I wasn't able to do much with that.
> 
> If, as you say, it's a real modem, it should show up as an ordinary 
> serial device, which would be /dev/ttyS<n>. Standard serial port devices 
> are /dev/ttyS0 through /dev/ttyS3. Any PCI cards that add additional 
> serial devices would probably come up as /dev/ttyS4, and so on.
> 
> Also, check the kernel boot messages, with dmesg, for any reference to 
> your modem card.

Yes, see if there's a /dev/ttyACM* device.  My USB-based USR modem gets
set up as /dev/ttyACM0.
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