Thanks David,

At 08:08 PM 7/23/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 05:42:41PM -0700, Rich Hall wrote:
>: At 07:23 PM 7/23/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>: >As I'm sure you'll get dozens of messages saying, networking devices are
>: >not "devices" in the sense that they have /dev entries.  They're entirely
>: >in the kernel and visible only via things like ifconfig.
>:
>: Thanks for the fast response. The docs have stated that devices are created
>: in /dev/ called /dev/sm[0..3] while in another  spot it states network
>: devices.. In any case I am unable to access them in any manner and when I
>
>I'm not a soundmodem expert, but I'm certain networking devices will
>be absent from /dev.  If 'ifconfig sm0' gives you an error, then the
>kernel doesn't know what sm0 is, so I'd guess the soundmodem stuff is not
>present in the kernel (or the module isn't loaded) or not yet configured.
>That should give you a place to start..

When I do an lsmod it shows the module as there but unused.

>Back when I tried the soundmodem stuff I used the information in
>/usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/soundmodem.txt, which worked
>perfectly.

Been there done that.. I am just at a loss on this. I have a lot of stuff 
here that I have made work over the years and I am fairly competent with 
Linux (RedHat) and this has me stumped totally. So at this time I am going 
to see what other have done or problems that they may have seen.

Thanks again.
-Rich

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