In your email to me, Paul Wade, you wrote: > > Robin Beckett wrote: > > > I got hold of the PPP-How-To and examined it's contents with interest, > I read it several months ago, but when I switched to Debian ppp got a > lot easier. I quickly edited the supplied chatscript and typed pon. It > was a lot easier than 2 other distributions I tried. > > > It mentioned /dev/modem, which I don't appear to have. Have I missed a > > package > > somewhere? Help! > > /dev/modem is usually a soft link > > for example my modem is on the 3rd port - COM3 in msdos/win > > ln -s /dev/cua2 /dev/modem > > creates the soft link > > if you switch your modem to the next port: > > rm /dev/modem > ln -s /dev/cua3 /dev/modem
No! *Please* don't give out info like this. The cua devices have been depricated for quite a while. /dev/ttyS* should be used for the serial devices. Other than that, what you stated is correct. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps "You cannot paint the 'Mona Lisa' by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters." -- William F. Buckley, Jr. ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.**
