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Re: Wedged Modem / Cannot Opem Modem Resolved



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On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Noel Henson wrote:

> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 09:11:38 -0700
> From: Noel Henson <noel@cowboyz.com>
> To: flexfax@sgi.com
> Subject: flexfax: Wedged Modem / Cannot Opem Modem Resolved
> 
> Thanks to all!  Everything is finally working.
> David Wolley hit the nail on the head!
> 
> The problem was that I used /dev/cua0 for the modem.  Once I switched to
> /dev/ttyS0, everything worked.
> 
> Just in case this is important for future reference, I'm running
> Slackware 3.5 (2.0.34) on a clone with a Cyrix 586-200 processor.

Ooof. RedHat 5.1's "modemcfg" tool unfortunately does not permit
/dev/ttyS0 to be selected. Ted T'so at MIT says that /dev/cua0 is
going away soon (replacing the "split-device" trick with a single
getty handling fax, data, etc. such as HylaFAX).


			Nico Kadel-Garcia
			Senior Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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