giovanni sartoni wrote: > Hi everybody > > I just solved my troubles with my winmodem and got it working > under linux. What it got is installing the linux driver: > > >insmod -f pctel_pci.o > > this is then de-installed when I shutdown and I must repeat it > every time I reboot. > If I understand correctly a way to automate this is to put it > in a script and install the script with > >update-rc > > Is there any alternate way?
You could put it in /etc/modules... > ############# > Second, I created a node to the new modem device with > >mknod /dev/pctel > > and made the /dev/pctel file writable to every user > but the "a+rw" seems to disappear at every reboot, > is it true? How to over come it? > Don't know if this is the right thing to do, but you could change ownership of the dev file (chown root.modem /dev/pctel) and add you to the modem group (addgroup your_username modem, this should be ritght sintax, for any problem try man addgroup)... Anyway, are you using an external modem plugged to a serial port? Andrea
