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From: larson@cs.utk.edu (Chris Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Minicom
Date: 29 Apr 1996 19:36:53 GMT
Organization: CS Labs, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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Message-ID: <LARSON.96Apr29153653@duncan.cs.utk.edu>
References: <4loed4$v1m@uwm.edu>
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In-reply-to: bacon@miller.cs.uwm.edu's message of 25 Apr 1996 17:56:52 GMT

In article <4loed4$v1m@uwm.edu> bacon@miller.cs.uwm.edu (Jason Bacon) writes:

:>
:>I compiled it on my 2.1.0 system without any problems, but for some reason
:>it can't get in touch with my modem.  It can't be a hardware problem,
:>since I'm using seyon at this moment.  I tried compiling with -DBSD
:>and -DSYSV.  Both compiled fine, but neither one would connect to the modem.
:>
:>No error messages, either - the modem (/dev/ttyd1) just doesn't respond.
:>
:>Any ideas would be appreciated.
:>

It may expect your modem device to be linked to /dev/modem

ln -s /dev/ttyd1 /dev/modem

good luck

chris
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Chris Larson                   larson@cs.utk.edu
Lab Assistant-Backups     Computer Science Dept.
University of Tennessee- Knoxville