On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Praedor Tempus wrote: > Thanks to you and daRmaTTeR. > > New question...at every bootup, my modem is "destroyed" by the system. I have > a winmodem that works with a linmodem driver. The win/linmodem is > /dev/tts/LT0 and is symlinked to /dev/modem. Upon bootup/reboot, this is > destroyed and replaced with /dev/modem -> /dev/ttyS0, a nonexistent device on > my system. > > This behavior happens only since installing 8.2 and never happened with 8.1. > I have to manually delete /dev/modem and recreate the /dev/tts/LT0 device and > the proper /dev/modem symlink. This appears to be a problem with devfs...but > in any case, how does one fix this? >
Praedor, I would write a simple, short bash script that executes at boot that checks for the existance of this symlink you've mentioned, and if it doesn't exist, then create it so that you don't have to manually do this every time you want to use your modem. place that script in /bin and make a symlink in /etc/init.d/ so that it get executed when the system starts up with the rest of the services that start at boot. Then, I would find out "why" this is happening and fix it once and for all. The first place I would look is what is different from 8.1 to 8.2 where this is concerned. I have a feeling it's got something to do with the procedure that is handling the device setup at boot. that would be my guess. although, now that I think about it, this sounds like there's already a script being run that is linking /dev/modem -> /dev/ttyS0. find that script and you've found your problem. Change the script to link /dev/modem -> /dev/tts/LT0 and you've solved your problem. -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the Lord." My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!"
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