I'm on Fedora Core 3.
I installed the ltmodem drivers from source.
./build_module
./ltinst2
./autoload
./checkout

The modem works fine and I can connect and browse websites.
But when i reboot, it no longer works. That's because there's no longer any /dev/modem or /dev/ttyLT0 present. The drivers do load up properly during startup. lsmod shows them to be detected. They're present in modprobe.conf.

alias /dev/modem lt_serial
alias char-major-62 lt_serial
alias /dev/tts/LT0 lt_serial

I can get them to work by installing the drivers again...until I reboot.

Anyone know what can be done to stop /dev/modem and its symlinks from disappearing?

wvdial confirms this problem: I get a message complaining that there is no /dev/modem.

also, just in case this never works, does this modem seem ok?
http://www.dse.co.nz/cgi-bin/dse.sto...ct/View/XH1154
It says it's compatible with Linux, but it then goes on to say that it "uses the host computer's CPU to replace the modem's controller," which sounds pretty winmodm-ish.