Serial modem not working after FC3 boot

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Wed Nov 24 16:04:13 UTC 2004


Chuck_Sterling wrote:
> I have a USR serial modem which worked under FC1 and FC2, but FC3 has a
> problem with it. After boot, /dev/modem does not exist, and KPPP fails.
> Turning off the modem and running kudzu removes the modem configuration.
> Turning it back on and rerunning kudzu restores the configuration and the
> /dev/modem device, after which KPPP works correctly.
> 
> Has this issue been resolved, other than with manual fiddling like I do
> now? I have found discussion on this issue but no automated fix. I also
> find no related bug on bugzilla, but may have missed all discussion on any
> such fix.
> 
> If there is a solution, please point me to it...

Could you try, after getting kudzu to create /dev/modem, doing:

# cp -rp /dev/modem /etc/udev/devices

Paul.




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