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On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, John J. Boyer wrote:

> The modem is in serial port 2.
>
> When I do minicom -s as root, I get the message that it cannot find
> /dev/modem. So how do I make this file?

As root:

	ln -s /dev/ttyS1 /dev/modem

Note that ttyS0 = COM1 and ttyS1 = COM2.


Nicolas