Sorry, my reply was correct (that's how you create a symlink), but it was the wrong way to do it. Your documentation says that udev will create a symlink for you: > > thus have to create a new file with > > kwrite, kate or gedit in /etc/udev/rules.d/10- local.rules and put the > > following lines in it: > > # Intelmodem536ep > > KERNEL="536ep0"' SYMLINK="modem"