Re: flexfax: Sharing Fax and Data line

[Yan Seiner <yan@cardinalengineering.com>]

Actually, /dev/modem is a sym link to whatever device your modem is
hooked up to.  AFAIK, it's not unique to RH.  It's supposed to make life
easier in that you can move the modem around from, say, ttyS1 to ttyD0
if you get a digi board without having to reconfigure all your software
configs.

/dev/cdrom is handled much the same way.

/dev/modem, howver, tends to make a mess of device locks, and cause
conflict, as there are now 3 names (ttyS1, cua1, and modem) by which a
device can be addressed.

Make life easy on yourself and alsways use the tty device to which your
modem is connected.  cuaX is no longer really necessary.

--Yan

David Woolley wrote:
> 
> > If it uses /dev/modem or /dev/cua1 that is the problem.
> > It must use /dev/ttyS1 if it shall coexist with HylaFAX
> 
> All programs must use the same name, but, from what I've heard,
> that name is /dev/modem for RedHat Linux; in my view that is a
> mistake on their part and they should delete /dev/modem
> completely, but they might argue that, for their, unsophisticated,
> target market, /dev/modem is more obvious.

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