On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, Nick Phillips wrote:
> > I noticed that the /dev/modem worked also, but I wanted to be
> > sure that it was using ttyS2 for now.
>
> Good. /dev/modem is usually a symlink to wherever your modem is, and my
> advice would be to delete it right away - if one program thinks it's using
> /dev/modem, and another thinks it's using /dev/ttyS0 (or whatever /dev/modem
> is linked to), they may get horribly confused.
On laptops with PCMCIA modems I would still recommend to use the
symlink /dev/modem created by the script /etc/pcmcia/serial upon the
insertion of the PCMCIA modem, since it is NOT garanted, that the modem
will allwas be connected to the same serial port (I have had on my laptop
this problem once or twice). A program relying on the information modem
is always on /dev/ttyS0 (or what ever) will be realy confused, when it is
sodenly not there, and to track down this bug can mean some work.
Martin
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