On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 14:08:22 +0800 Peter <heisspf@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > slackware 10.2 kernel 2.6.16 > > heisspf@xxxxxxxxxxx indirectly said: > > What I needed was a file named 10-local.rules placed in the /sda3/etc/udev/ > > rules.d subdirectory. All the file needed was the line following: > > > KERNEL="ttyS0", SYMLINK="modem" > > > Now the modem node in the /dev directory doesn't vanish anymore. > > > Will try it on next reboot > > It does not work, NAME="/dev/ttyS0" has to be added. However doing this then > there are no /dev/ttyS*. Symlink /dev/modem points to a non existing file. > > Now I found that /dev/ttyS0 is a symlink to /dev/tts/0. So I changed > NAME="/dev/tts/0" with the effect that then there is no /dev/tts/0 but only 1, > 2 and 3. > I finally solved it, the file /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules reads now: KERNEL="ttyS0",NAME="tts/0",SYMLINK="modem" and after reboot this morning: ls -l /dev/modem lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 2006-06-03 15:26 /dev/modem -> tts/0 and efax, vbox for which I need the modem mostly work. Regards -- Peter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
