/dev/modem symlink gets wiped out on boot

D.Personne heliotopik at wanadoo.fr
Sat Nov 12 17:50:39 UTC 2005


Le samedi 12 novembre 2005 à 11:48 -0500, stan a écrit :
> I've just mamnaged to get my winmodem working using the ltmodem kernel
> modules.
> 
> Only one remaining problem. The actual nevice node is /dev/ttyLM0, and when
> I create a symbolic link for /dev/modem to it, this is not there after I
> reboot the machine.
> 
> Why does this get removed, and how can I fix this?

Hi,
Try this:

write a script (first line =>   #!/bin/sh  
then next line =>  symbolic linking)
and put it in the /etc/init.d/ using update-rc.d

See here for more info:
http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2005/09/07/adding-a-startup-script-to-be-run-at-bootup/






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