[Gambas-user] modem

[Neil Fallon]

Hi EEE,

I think you're looking for /dev/tt0 or /dev/tty1 and so forth.

Neil

On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 10:04 -0800, Eldon Eller wrote:
> YADQ that is not even really gambas. Here is the story:
> 
> I have a little mickey-mouse program written in VB that runs on Windows, 
> and have written a (mostly) duplicate program in Gambas that runs on 
> Linux (SuSE 9.2) in my dual-boot system. The two programs share the same 
> data from a FAT32 partition. So far, so good. One feature I included in 
> the VB program was to use my modem to dial a selected phone number. I 
> would like to include that feature in the Gambas version. I assume that 
> I can do this via the appropriate serial port. The exemplary program 
> "SerialPort" seems like a good guide.
> 
> Now here is my problem: I do not know the name of the serial port to 
> which my modem is attached. If I use YAST to look for modems, it finds 
> "AZtech HSP modem 56" (not configured). If I set about to configure it, 
> I get a screen that has, among other things, a label, "Modem Device:," 
> next to an empty box (cannot write to the box). If I peer into 
> /dev/modems, I find a single item, a Character Device of size 0 Bytes 
> named "mwave". If I run the "SerialPort" example and enter 
> /dev/modems/mwave, (or anything else I can think of, for that matter, I 
> get the message "Error Opening Serial Port."
> 
> I assume that this happens because I am trying to open a non-existent 
> serial port. If that assumption is correct, how do I go about finding 
> the name of the modem serial port?
> 
> My apologies in advance for dumb question. I am as ignorant as a post 
> regarding linux.
> 
> EEE
> 
> 
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