Modem problem

[James Paterson]

Frank Arnold wrote:

>I aaam trying to set up faxing in Kubuntu breezy and can't find
>my modem. I ran wvdial from the command line and got the following:
>
>root at frankhome:/home/franka# wvdial
>--> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.54.0
>--> Warning: section [Dialer Defaults] does not exist in wvdial.conf.
>--> Cannot open /dev/modem: No such file or directory
>--> Cannot open /dev/modem: No such file or directory
>--> Cannot open /dev/modem: No such file or directory
>root at frankhome:/home/franka#
>
>Obviously I need help.
>Where can I go from here?
>
>Frank Arnold
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If anything else is using the modem you could try
locating its device name from the modem properties
on that device and put a symbolic link to modem in /dev/ from that

Sorry I am not clear on this but when I got my winmodem working
on my laptop I read about some programs wanting a link in dev/modem.
The scanmodem also gave the actual device name.  When I got kppp
working I noticed that it used /dev/modem but the list of possibile
in the drop down on the modem properties included the actual one.

best James Paterson