Re: [SLUG] Modem

From: Levi Bard (levi@bard.sytes.net)
Date: Sun Dec 15 2002 - 00:24:48 EST


> ls -al /dev/modem
>
> You probably have a sym link in your /dev directory called "modem". See
> what the link points to.
>
> /dev/ttyS0 is like COM1
> /dev/ttyS1 is like COM2
> /dev/ttyS2 is like COM3
> /dev/ttyS3 is like COM4
>
> less /proc/interrupts, and a bunch of other stuff in /proc is interesting
> too.

Quick note: /dev/modem doesn't always exist or point to the correct device. There are a few apps that attempt to detect which serial port the modem uses, and they generally give good results for nice, hardware modems. I recall using wvdialconf, but it's been years ago that I had dialup.

Levi



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