[hcflinux] [hcflinux] never mind, it works!! Thank you, Michael Ó Nuadháin

[Larson, Nicholas Alton (UMKC-Student)]

Wow....logically, it shouldn't work, but it did (and does).  I used Michael Ó Nuadháin's solution using symlinks to a file that wasn't even really there, and it totally works....and maybe I'm just imagining this but it seems that my modem works better and faster now than it ever did in windows.  Thanks to everyone who made this driver possible.

Here's a copy of the solution I used:

>(first of all you have to be logged in as root)
>1. cd into /dev/
>2. if it exists rm /dev/modem and then ls again to make sure it's not
>still there - in my case I always have to rm it twice for some reason
>3. do a symbolic link from /dev/modem to /dev/ttySHCF0 (even though it's
>not there):
>    ln -s /dev/ttySHCF0 /dev/modem
>4. Open kppp or whatever and try dialing.
>
>Unfortunately this has to be done on my linux box every time I reboot. I
>should make a script file to do it automatically but I've not bothered
>yet :D
>
>After the first time it worked, an odd thing happened - every time I
>reboot /dev/ttySHCF0/ is still there - and yes, it's /dev/ttySHCF0/ - a
>directory. This will make the modem non-functional, so you have to rmdir
>/dev/ttySHCF0 and go ahead and rm /dev/modem etc. again as above. I'd be
>interested if anyone has any idea why this is happening.
>
>
>By the way, thanks to Marc for providing the driver and all the pursuing
>and ensuing work that went into it
>
>Good luck
>
>Michael Ó Nuadháin