Topic: Moving hard drive from one PC to another

[pwgsc1]

Hi Folks,

I had a pc die on me, I moved the hard drive to another PC (not the same type) and everything came up pretty good except for my modem I had to move it over with the hard drive.

When I run the "faxaddmodem" for Hylafax it finds it and lets me config it but if I use minicom it says there is no /dev/modem device.

I'm thinking I have to tell SME to recheck for new hardware and then it will add it, would that be correct?  If so, how do I tell SME to verify the hardware?  If not how to I add a modem after the initial install?

Thanks,

Craig

[Michiel]

/dev/modem is just a symlink pointing (normally) to /dev/tty1. In windoweeze that's your COM1 port.

If you hooked your modem to your second serial port (or use an internal modem), you will have to change the symlink to point to the correct tty device.

[Boris]

Some time after you change hardware it help to run kudzu (hardware detection) from the command line and reboot.
creating/repairing symbolic link /dev/modem in your case maybe sufficient, but assuring that HW redetected properly will not hurt.

[ldkeen]

Minicom is trying to use the default port of /dev/modem. If you run minicom -s (to run setup) and change the default port to whatever your modem is it should work fine. Alternatively you could create the symlink to your modem with
#ln -s /dev/ttySx /dev/modem (where ttySx would be wherever you modem is connected)

[pwgsc1]

Thanks for the quick response(s).

Kudzu was the program I was trying to remember to recheck my hardware, I was all around it with Kazoo (remember him from the Flintstones cartoon), Kazza, etc but I have it etched in my brain now.  

Appreciate it.

Craig

[pwgsc1]

Thanks for the quick response(s).

Kudzu was the program I was trying to remember to recheck my hardware, I was all around it with Kazoo (remember him from the Flintstones cartoon), Kazza, etc but I have it etched in my brain now.  

Appreciate it.

Craig