installing a modem under debian 1.3

1998-06-29 Thread scott hussey
I am a very novice Linux/Debian user and am trying to setup minicom. I am curious about how to get minicom to recognize my modem. I read in the man page that most linux systems have the serial port as /dev/modem or /dev/cua#. How can I get Linux to install my modem as a dev. Currently, pppd

Re: installing a modem under debian 1.3

1998-06-29 Thread John Kloss
On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, scott hussey wrote: I am a very novice Linux/Debian user and am trying to setup minicom. I am curious about how to get minicom to recognize my modem. I read in the man page that most linux systems have the serial port as /dev/modem or /dev/cua#. How can I get Linux to

Re: installing a modem under debian 1.3

1998-06-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, scott hussey wrote: I am a very novice Linux/Debian user and am trying to setup minicom. I am curious about how to get minicom to recognize my modem. I read in the man page that most linux systems have the serial port as /dev/modem or /dev/cua#. How can I get Linux to

Re: installing a modem under debian 1.3

1998-06-29 Thread john
John Kloss writes: I have been told that /dev/cua# is deprecated and that docs using /dev/cua# are out of date... Yes. They will disappear soon. I'm pretty sure that /dev/modem is just a symbolic link.. Yes. It's always a symbolic link. so to make /dev/modem type ln -s /dev/ttyS2

Re: installing a modem under debian 1.3

1998-06-29 Thread Ed Cogburn
scott hussey wrote: I am a very novice Linux/Debian user and am trying to setup minicom. I am curious about how to get minicom to recognize my modem. I read in the man page that most linux systems have the serial port as /dev/modem or /dev/cua#. How can I get Linux to install my modem as a