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  Re: <@@> IS FINDING DEVICES A GUESSING GAME ?? <@@>
  By:  to All on Thu Apr 04 2002 07:58:13

 > From Newsgroup: ahn.tech.linux
 > 
 > Hello.  When I want to mount disk drives or find my modem "tty" etc., I have
 > to typically guess and try to mount the right item in the "/dev" directory.
 > I get some info from the "/var/log/boot.msg", and then try to mount and
 > link. I understand that with Linux I must be explicit and tell it where I
 > want to mount things. But doesnt Linux know where it had found the hardware
 > peripherals and where the drives and modems are connected?  Because I cant
 > "see" where a piece of hardware is connected, I have trouble mounting my
 > drives.  Because I dont know which "tty" Linux found my PCI modem, I spend
 > alot of time guessing.  Because I dont know the "filesystem" of a hard disk
 > or zip disk, I guess until the cows come home.
 > 
 > How can I know where specifically Linux found my hardware?

Your hardware configuration should not change that much, If you modem is 
set to com1 then your modem should be set to /dev/ttyS0, and this should 
not change if you reboot if it is a true hardware based modem, afterwards 
just create a dynamic link in you /dev/ directory called modem linking it 
to /dev/ttyS0
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