Very Computer

I bought a  Mac IBOOK recently and under MacOSX registered via the
inbuilt modem  to Mac HQ  , no problems.

But under Linux ( YDL2.3 ; Package selection : "Everything " ), trying to
access the serial port via 'minicom' fails as it tries to
use /dev/modem which doesn't exist.

Usually /dev/modem is a symlink to /dev/ttyS1 - at least is
so on my PC's running SuSE 8.0 Linux.

So in /dev, I did a 'ln -s ttyS1 /dev/modem' but that didn't
allow minicom to work

Advice ?  

- Gary

Adam

Quote:> This is not insurmountable, but does make things a bit harder. I'd start
> by checking with dmesg | less and seeing if you can find a line where your

Quote:> modem is being set up. (If you're in luck, it will show the address, too.)
> If it doesn't appear, you will need to find software to drive it. I've
> heard that it exists and doesn't work too badly, but sadly don't know a
> link to point you to. Hope that gets you started in the right direction,
> at least.

> Adam

I'd ask YDL to confirm this - and ask if and when they hope to support the IBOOK
inbuilt modem. If I had support, that is  :) Jeez - any half-competent organisation
would encourage their techno-droids to browse groups such as this and answer
simple questions ...

Perhaps someone who has YDL "support"  who enquire on my behalf ?

TIA.

- Gary (somewhat pissed off, and about to surf over to
         SuSE, Debian and check out their PPC offerings)