RE: modem keeps disappearing

From: Claude Jones (claude_jones_at_levitjames.com)
Date: 03/31/05

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    To: <akonstam@trinity.edu>, "'For users of Fedora Core releases'" <fedora-list@redhat.com>
    Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:23:42 -0500
    
    

    akonstam@trinity.edu wrote:
    | Claude Jones wrote:
    || I reply to myself - the modem is not disappearing. By doing a
    || kudzu -p I was able to determine that the modem is still
    || configured and is set to ttyS14 - when I used that to connect
    || via Kermit and ProComm just now, I got in. So, does anyone
    || know why, is it called the 'symbolic link' /dev/modem?, keeps
    || disappearing?
    ||
    | You don't say, but is your modem external? Fedora has a poor
    | record in recognizing external modems. Modems are removed in my
    | experience at random, it seems, for no reason whatsoever. If
    | kudzu thinks the modem has disappeared then I ma nor surprised
    | the /dev/modem disappears. Using the /dev/ttySx has always
    | worked better for me. --
    |

    It's an internal PCI recommended for Linux. Someone suggested a
    driver had been made available by USR and I installed it - that
    'may' have fixed the problem. I'm doing so many things today to
    this box that I'm having a hard time keeping track of them all.

    Claude Jones
    Levit & James, Inc./WTVS
    Leesburg, VA, USA

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