It seems the installation of my USB modem drivers went OK. At least I didn't get any error messages. I think I made the mistake of installing the drivers for my Win Modem just after that and before testing USB. Here (when installing the Win Modem drivers) I got error messages. Apparently both devices want to take the thing (I do not know what it really is) tty SL0 (please notice the *L* in there, it is not ttyS0), and assign the symbolic link /dev/modem to them. So the Win Modem installation gave me the instructions:
"The modem symbolic link is: /dev/modem ---> ./ttySL0 (please notice the dot just before "/"). This will conflict with support for the Lucent Win Modem. Please: rm -f /dev/modem and assign another symbolic link to ./ttySL0, such as: ln -s ./ttySL0/dev/modem2." Now, I did nothing. I installed the USB drivers again, and I thought I had restored everything for the USB modem, and tested. In the /root directory I found "modem" all right. Tested, wvdial says /dev/modem "no such device. Now, I do not know what created the entry "modem" in the root directory. I ran the Win Modem installation again expecting to get the same errors, but no, it completed without any error messages. Test. wvdial: /dev/modem, "no such device". I installed the USB drivers again. Last I did is follow the advise of a friend of mine and do the following: rm -f /dev/modem ln -s tty USB0 modem Ln -s ./ttyUSB0/dev/modem "/dev/modem already exists" ln -s tty LS0 modem2 ln -s ./ttyS0/dev/modem2 I simply have just a blurred idea of what is going on, but I would want to have the USB modem as /dev/modem, and the Win Modem as /devmodem2. Now, could you please, first excuse me for my dumbness, and repetitions and second treat me as a real dumb (apple style, well, you can do it Windows style) and explain to me what am I doing, what is ttySL0, ttyS0, ttyUSB0, etc, and what can I do to fix my problem? By the way, if I put /dev/modem in diald in KDE for FIFO (if I understood well, "/dev/modem" is a FIFO, is it not?), the thing protests, if I put /dev/modem2, the thing doesn't protest, but does nothing. And in wvdial in the command line I cannot try /dev/modem2 because it is not in the wvdial.config file. Can you tell me how to configure it to make it dial both /dev/modem and /dev/modem2? Sorry about it all. Just short of time to do a proper research. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
