[ltp] 600e modem

[Neil Weisenfeld]

On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 18:34, Matt Smith wrote:
> I'm trying to get a modem working on my 600e running debian testing. I 
> have 3 options, in descending order of preference (although at this
> stage I'd be very happy to get any one of them going): mwave, external
> serial, US robotics xj4336 pcmcia.
> 
> Here's what I've done so far with the mwave. I got mwavem-1.0.4.tar.gz 
> from http://oss.software.ibm.com/acpmodem/ and did configure, make, make 
> install without reading any docs. I only include this in case it could 
> bugger up my subsequent, informed efforts. I ran pppconfig and told it 
> to use /dev/modems/mwave. pon did nothing and plog gave this:
> 
> 	Jul 15 09:29:27 hallypolis pppd[4172]: pppd 2.4.1 started by 			matt, 
> uid 1000
> 	Jul 15 09:29:27 hallypolis pppd[4172]: Failed to open 			 
> /dev/thinkpad/thinkpad: No such device
> 	Jul 15 09:29:27 hallypolis pppd[4172]: Exit.
> 
> Interestingly that(failed to....such device)'s also what tpctl says when 
> I try to enable the serial port.
> 

You should add:

alias char-major-10-170 thinkpad

to your /etc/modules.conf and run 'depmod -a'

Then the thinkpad module will be loaded when something tries to access
/dev/thinkpad/thinkpad.  If you do 'ls -l /dev/thinkpad/thinkpad' it
should show it as a character device with major # 10 and minor # 170:

crw-rw-r--    1 root     root      10, 170 Jul 12 01:19 /dev/thinkpad/thinkpad




Neil