on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 08:57:21PM -0800, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 08:53:29PM -0800, ben ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Sunday 02 December 2001 08:41 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 05:49:21PM +0200, Ian Balchin > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > > /dev/ttyS[012] almost certainly isn't going to be the device file you > > > want though. > > > > > > > why wouldn't he want this? my modem uses /dev/ttyS1--always has. > > You deleted the reference to the fact he's connecting it to a parallel > port.
Correcting myself. From Ian's later post, the modem *has* a parallel-port connector in addition to the standard serial, and it's the serial he's using. Disregard my earlier device file comments. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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