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Title: Moving hard drive from one PC to another
Post by: pwgsc1 on February 05, 2004, 07:42:40 PM

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

Title: Re: Moving hard drive from one PC to another
Post by: Michiel on February 05, 2004, 08:25:43 PM

/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.

Title: Moving hard drive from one PC to another
Post by: Boris on February 05, 2004, 09:33:00 PM

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.

Title: Minicom
Post by: ldkeen on February 06, 2004, 02:01:27 AM

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)

Title: Thanks guys
Post by: pwgsc1 on February 06, 2004, 12:16:15 PM

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

Title: Thanks guys
Post by: pwgsc1 on February 06, 2004, 12:19:03 PM

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