[ltp] Softmodem in R51 doesnt work in SuSE 9.1

[Jeffrey Taylor]

Quoting Greg Meyer <mdklists@gkmweb.com>:
> On Sunday 08 August 2004 01:54 pm, Uwe R??ner wrote:
> > Hi Jeffrey
> >
> > On Freitag, 30. Juli 2004 17:09 Jeffrey Taylor wrote:
> >
> > Sorry for my late response...
> >
> > > > I have a problem with a new Thinkpad R51 running under SuSE 9.1 Linux.
> > > > The internal softmodem doesn?t work (I can ? speak? with the modem, but
> > > > it doesn ?t dial). YAST is able to identify the modem and I can
> > > > configure it (the package smartlink-softmodems is installed)
> > >
> > > Install the following packages:
> > >
> > > km_smartlink-softmodem-2.9.6-79
> > > smartlink-softmodem-2.9.6-79
> >
> > I have done this, but without success. The modem doesn?t dial and after
> > some seconds I get ?no carrier?.
> >
> > Thank you for your hint.
> >
> Do you have the right dev links.  I had to create a link from /dev/modem 
> to /dev/ttyS4, which is the device setup by the modem.

On my T41, the device is /dev/ttySL0 (ess, ell, zero).

Jeffrey