Re: [gentoo-user] What /devTTY? is the modem normally under?

2005-09-27 Thread John Jolet
a modem on a laptop isn't likely to be under anything. MOST of them are "winmodems" and are mostly software. windows software, to be exact. There may be projects out there to get some of them to work, but I'm not sure what the success rate is these days. Last I looked, it was abysmal.

Re: [gentoo-user] What /devTTY? is the modem normally under?

2005-09-27 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 21:56:49 -0500 John Jolet wrote: > a modem on a laptop isn't likely to be under anything. MOST of them > are "winmodems" and are mostly software. windows software, to be > exact. There may be projects out there to get some of them to work, > but I'm not sure what the

Re: [gentoo-user] What /devTTY? is the modem normally under?

2005-09-27 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:31:04 +1200 Nick Rout wrote: > > > The folowing resources may assist: > > http://www.linux-laptop.net/ - database of laptops and links to other > users experiences. In fact via there I found for you this: http://www.utc.fr/~villegas/docs/nx7000/#amr_modem which sugg

RE: [gentoo-user] What /devTTY? is the modem normally under?

2005-09-27 Thread Richard Watson
Thanks to everyone for their feedback on this. Richard -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.7/112 - Release Date: 26/09/2005 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] What /devTTY? is the modem normally under?

2005-09-28 Thread Richard Watson
Hi again. I installed slmodem but it's looking for /dev/ttySL0. Presumably I need to create this manually. Can anyone tell me what command I should use to create this. Thanks, Richard -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11

Re: [gentoo-user] What /devTTY? is the modem normally under?

2005-09-28 Thread Walter Dnes
In addition to what everyone else has mentioned. External modems work on /dev/ttyS0../dev/ttyS3 (DOS COM1:..COM4:). Internal PCI modems work on /dev/ttyS4 or higher. Some kernels default to only supporting the 4 external ports, and internal PCI modems won't run. To support internal PCI modems

Re: [gentoo-user] What /devTTY? is the modem normally under?

2005-09-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:14:20 +1000, Richard Watson wrote: > Hi again. I installed slmodem but it's looking for /dev/ttySL0. > Presumably I need to create this manually. Can anyone tell me what > command I should use to create this. It's been a while since I used slmodem, but I'm fairly sure the i