How to create symlink

Scott Severance scott at scottseverance.us
Wed Sep 27 18:43:52 UTC 2006


On 9/27/06, umair ubuntu <umairubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have borrowed this text(in yellow ) from community doc
> *HOW TO INSTALL MODEM*
> The name of your modem device is /dev/536ep0. You can now use sudo
> pppconfig to set up pon & poff. To use Kppp you will need to create a
> symlink be able to link the /dev/536ep0 to /dev/modem. Udev rewrites the
> /dev on each reboot and 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"
>
> *MY problemis that i donot know how to create symlink file be able to link
> /dev/536ep0 to /dev/modem*
>

Use sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules and paste in the appropriate
lines (from the doc).

Scott

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