I've set my Dad up on an Ubuntu Linux machine. Most everything has gone smoothly and he's starting to understand file handling. The dial-up for his internet works and the printer prints. But the actual dialling up has a problem: Sometimes it can't open /dev/modem.
I'm using a dialler I found in Synaptic called gnome-ppp. I was a bit surprised there was nothing in the default install that could do that, so I found that. When it works, it works well. But about a third of the time, it can't open /dev/modem or simply fails to even dial at all.
Ideas? Thoughts? I'm going to go now and hopefully it will fail so I can see if /dev/modem even exists.
Wade.