Ok, so I'm clueless. :) Setting up an external modem.

[William Carty]

On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 10:23, Scott Alan Burch wrote:
> 
> Start with some basic troubleshooting. I have a Mac  9500 with a Best Data 
> 56k external modem that I bought at Fry's. The first thing I did was made 
> sure it would dial from the Mac OS side before I tried it on the YDL side.
> 
> I recall that since the MacOS saw the modem and would dial it from the 
> modem port, the "Dialup Configuration" on KDE already had the modem 
> defaulted as /dev/ttyS0.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> ##  scott
> 

To the original poster...  As Scott said in his post, the modem may in
fact show up as /dev/ttys0 - that's fine, but your dialer may be
expecting to find it at /dev/modem.  You may first want to see if you
have a /dev/modem :

ls -l /dev/modem

If nothing shows up, try creating a symbolic link:

(as root)

ln -s /dev/ttys0 /dev/modem

See if that helps.