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To: Larry Bottorff <mrprenzl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [aclug-L] Re: Which /dev is a pcmcia modem?
From: jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 23:03:59 -0500
Reply-to: aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx

The PCMCIA modems are on /dev/ttyS? as per usual with serial devices,  The 
trick is that you need te PCMCIA kernel modules loaded, and the userland card 
services fjiles.  No idea how Caldera does this, alas...
>---- Original Message ---
>From: Larry Bottorff <mrprenzl@xxxxxxxxxx>
>To: aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>Cc: 
>Subject: [aclug-L] Which /dev is a pcmcia modem?
>
>I'm trying to get ppp to work on an old laptop. I installed an old copy of
>Caldera 1.1 (2.0.29?), mainly because no other Linuxes could even boot the boot
>disk or see the hard drive. Anyway, I'm putting together a login string
>(roughly following an old ppp howto) which uses "/dev/modem". Does anyone know
>how to link my pcmcia card to /dev/modem? My pcmcia manager works fine for my
>pcimcia nic (I installed over it using the NFS install option). I'll eventually
>want to know how to upgrade my kernel and C libraries, too. All help
>appreciated....
> --
>Larry Bottorff  /  mrprenzl@xxxxxxxxxx  /  316.345.3387
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