Linuxant driver, /dev/modem disappears after reboot
 

I have got the linuxant driver for my Thinkpad R51 (Slackware 10) softmodem, when I run hsfconfig it all sets up fine, creates /dev/modem linked to /dev/ttySHSF0 and the modem connects OK.

After reboot /dev/modem doesn't exist and I have to run hsfconfig to set it all up again.

Is this normal for the linuxant drivers?

I could use pkgtool to set up the modem but I am not sure which ttyS* to use and I don't want to assign the wrong one and find out that bluetooth or something gets broken.

Thanks for any ideas on this,

mark

this isn't related to the driver you are using, but devfs, which is responsible for creating the contents of /dev each time you boot. what you need to do is configure devfs to create that device for you on boot. you need to edit /etc/devfsd.conf or a distro speciic inter[pretation of it. check the devfs manpage for further details about devfsd

Thanks for that acid_kewpie,

following the info you gave it seems that my hand-rolled kernel 2.6.7+chefmark's experiments (still a work in progress!) is using "udev", I have no idea what this means but this site :

http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php

gives a lot of info, sadly I am too stupid to understand most of it :o , this is going to take some reading

Thanks again,

mark

blimey yeah i keep forgetting about udev. i remember a big shift from flat /dev directories to devfs... now it's on the way out... and to be honest i've no knowledge of udev whatsoever at the moment!

I solved this problem by putting the line

hsfconfig -a

into /etc/rc.d/rc.local

it adds a few seconds to the boot time but otherwise seems to work fine

Something else, do you really need driverloader. Ndiswrapper is free.