No modem in /dev/

[Chas.H]

Now that I've moved up to FC4, I back in the community with a good mystery for you lot.

Moments after the upgrade, I used KPPP to dial into my ISP, no worries bar one. The icon on the panel that I used to watch my connection and right-click | disconnect was not there. With no way that I knew of to disconnect, I logged out of gnome and rebooted. I figured I'd reconfigure KPPP to show panel (tray) icon. I switched my default desktop to KDE and like it a lot so that's where I stay.

Now when I try KPPP it complains: /dev/modem not found. Sure enough there is no modem in the /dev/ directory. Odd isn't it?

<I tried>
Configure KPPP to use /dev/ttyS0... this shows modem ready, then initalising modem... It hangs right there. I've given it 45 minutes and it fails to carry on from there. When I try /dev/ttyS1, /dev/ttyS2, /dev/ttyS3, or /dev/ttyS4, KPPP reports modem busy.

When I check the hardware browser, no modem.

I looked in /etc/sysconfig/hwconf and the modem turns up as ttyS14. Unfortunately, ttyS14 is not one of the choices when configuring KPPP through the GUI.
</I tried>

I also tried some of the suggestions in this forum and had no luck.

Can someone welcome me back with something more to try?
A silver bullet soultion would be nice... ;)

[Chas.H]

Nobody have any ideas, eh?

[Chas.H]

Since the modem is ttySS14 and that isn't a choice in the KPPP config, I tried a symbolic to ttyS14 as modem.
ln -s /dev/ttyS14 /dev/modem
It worked! :)

So I put that line of code in /etc/rc.local and the problem is solved.


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