You should have the right kernel (from the 2.4 series) already
installed, patched, and ready to go. We got that far. What you need to
do is make the node in /dev. I know you use mknod and the device is
/dev/ttyS15, but I don't know the major and minor numbers and then link
/dev/modem to that "ln -s /dev/ttyS15 /dev/modem". After that, it
*should* work. I'll work on finding what the mknod line is, and will
send it to you.
--Mike
nate wrote:
> ok, here it goes. I brought my computer into one of
> the thursday meetings about a month ago with windows
> going crazy and decided to whipe everything and
> install linux on it so you guys installed Mandrake 7.1
> on it without a probem but since i had a winmodem in
> it i went out and bought a new hardware modem asap,
> (you will proably remember this one) its a " PCI U.S.
> Robotics 56k Performance Pro Modem" Model No. 3CP5610A
> . On the box it says "Works with DOS, Linux and
> Windows" The modem came with a couple of documents for
> installing on the diffirent OS's the linux one says
> this ""Verify The Modem's installation Under Linux 2.3
> and Higher" "NOTE: All 2.3 and higher Linux kernels
> contain the 3Com Linux Modem drivers. Installation of
> the modem under this kernel is fully automatic
> provided your kernel has the plug and play module
> enabled (default). After the operating system has
> recognized the modem, verify the installation using
> the steps below." Then the paper goes on to tell you
> how to verify the modems installation under linux...
> which is a bunch of stuff i dont understand since i'm
> a linux newbie. Well to make a long story short you
> guys toyed with it all night and decided i needed to
> update my kernel so i downloaded it and stared doing
> what you guys told me to do, we were almost done when
> i needed to leave so i never got to fix it all the way
> well basically i was wondering what distros have the
> 2.3 kernel or higher and if i whiped my hardrive and
> installed one of those distros on it if my modem would
> work but i cant go to any of the thursday meetings
> until after the football season because of games i
> have so if i brought it into PC Traning center isn't
> that the store next to the EUGLUG? would you guys fix
> it for me? ack....
>
> Please Help, Nate Backer
>
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