/dev/modem -s link keeps disappearing

[Michael Mauch]

j Mak wrote:

> I would appreciate help in solving a strange problem
> in hoary. I use a robotics external modem and
> gnome-ppp dialer. When I set up gnome-ppp the only
> thing i did, created a symbolic /dev/modem link to
> /dev/ttyS0 serial port and the modem worked right
> away. The problem is that each time I reboot the
> /dev/modem link disappears from the computer
> completely, so I have to recreate the link every day
> to be able to log on. 
> Does anyone have an idea how to solve this?

You could create a file /etc/udev/rules.d/modem.rules
with the line:

KERNEL="ttyS0", SYMLINK="modem"

Not sure whether this is the recommended way, though.

Regards...
		Michael