[Gambas-user] modem

[Benoit Minisini]

On Monday 07 March 2005 19:04, 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
>

Since Linux 2.6, you have a pseudo file-system mounted on /sys that describes 
the contents of your computer. I don't know the exact syntax, but I think you 
can guess it by browsing the directory, or by reading the book from O'Reilly 
about /proc and /sys.

Regards,

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Benoit Minisini
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