On Sunday 23 June 2002 04:26 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote: > jerry wrote: > > On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 14:32:04 -0400 > > > > daRcmaTTeR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>"IT" should be forever scuttled and banned from the landscape of so > >>wonderful an OS never to be seen or heard from again....EVER! > > > > (as a result: there's no way they're taking it out now, especially if > > they read messages from people who don't like it) lol ;-P > > well...to be totally honest I "do" see its need and usefulness, however > I've been so blessed as to have had the privilege to *not* have had a > good experience with the little bugger. it doesn't like my Handspring > Visor. :(
It also doesn't like the winmodem in my laptop (but then, who LIKES winmodems?). I am "happily" using the winmodem as a linmodem using the ltmodem drivers. Works great. Problem is, it is but a passing thing since installing 8.2. In Mandrake 8.1, I also had the ltmodem driver installed and working - and it was permanent. It worked with every bootup and login. Since installing 8.2, however, I have to manually remove the system's insistent retardation of setting /dev/modem -> /dev/ttyS0 ->/dev/tts/0. This does not exist on my system yet devfs does it every time. Upon bootup, I have to rm -f /dev/modem and then rerun the ltmodem "checkout" script to get the symlink to point to /dev/tts/LT0, created for devfs by same script. Unfortunately, the script is interactive so I cannot simply put it in /etc/rc.d or other and have it work every bootup. In a word, devfs SUCKS. Always has, always will. The end. praedor
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